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Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:58

  • Activity: means a distinct subset of functions or services within a program. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
  • 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
  • Appropriation: means an authorization by the legislature to a budget unit for a program to expend from public funds a sum of money, for purposes designated, under the procedure prescribed in this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Fund: means an independent fiscal and accounting entity with a self-balancing set of accounts recording cash or other resources together with all related liabilities, obligations, reserves, and equities which are segregated for the purpose of carrying on specific activities or attaining certain objectives in accordance with regulations, restrictions, and limitations. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.

A.  Appropriations for financing the operations of industries, farms, dining halls, dormitories, book stores, refreshment booths, and other activities conducted as business enterprises and not primarily for rendering public services shall be known as revolving working capital appropriations and shall be subject to the succeeding provisions of this Section.

B.  All receipts from the operations of any activity so financed shall be deposited in a special revolving fund account.  The amount so credited to this account may be expended for the purposes thereof, in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter governing expenditures.

C.  The entire net worth of any working capital appropriation, as represented by any excess of assets over liabilities of the appropriation, at the end of any year, shall be included as a resource of the fund from which the original appropriation was made, available for appropriation for the next succeeding year.

Acts 1989, No. 836, §1, eff. July 1, 1989.