Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:77 – The expenditure of any monies in excess of the funds appropriated or otherwise allocated for expenditure by any board, commission, department, or agency of the state during any fisca
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:77
- Agency: means any state office, department, board, commission, institution, division, officer or other person, or functional group, heretofore existing or hereafter created, that is authorized to exercise, or that does exercise, any functions of the government of the state in the executive branch, but not any governing body or officer of any local government or subdivision of the state, or any parochial officer who exercises functions coterminous with the municipality in which he performs those functions. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
- Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
The expenditure of any monies in excess of the funds appropriated or otherwise allocated for expenditure by any board, commission, department, or agency of the state during any fiscal year shall constitute reasonable cause for removal from office of the officer or officers, whether elected or appointed, responsible therefor in accordance with the provisions of La. Const. Art. X of Louisiana, unless the officer first has obtained approval therefor of the interim emergency board and of the legislature by a two-thirds vote of the members thereof taken by ballot conducted by the clerk of the House of Representatives and secretary of the Senate as provided in La. Rev. Stat. 39:461.1; provided, however, that the provisions of the Section shall not apply to the Department of Military Affairs or the Department of Public Safety and Corrections when a state of emergency has been declared by the governor so long as the department heads shall certify to the governor that the expenditure of funds is necessary as a direct result of said state of emergency.
Acts 1989, No. 836, §1, eff. July 1, 1989; Acts 2016, No. 280, §1.