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Terms Used In Indiana Code 5-19-1-3

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • political subdivision: shall mean and include any county of Indiana, any civil township of Indiana, any civil incorporated city or town of Indiana, any school corporation of any township, city, or town of Indiana, or any other territorial subdivision of the state recognized or designated in any law, any public utility entity not privately owned, any public sewage disposal entity, any public flood control or levee district or entity, any public drainage district or entity, any public sanitary district or entity, and any public improvement district authority or entity authorized to levy taxes or assessments. See Indiana Code 5-19-1-4
   Sec. 3. The acceptance by any political subdivision shall be made by the governing authority of such political subdivision by and with the consent of the appropriating authority of such political subdivision, if expenditures of any public funds of such political subdivision be required. No fund of any said political subdivision shall be expended without due appropriation as provided by law, but said political subdivision may make regular appropriations for the purposes authorized by this chapter or may make them as emergency appropriations are made.

Formerly: Acts 1947, c.178, s.3. As amended by P.L.25-1986, SEC.101.