Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:3001

  • 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

A.  The parish governing authorities are hereby authorized and empowered at their discretion to appropriate a sum not to exceed fifty thousand dollars per year in support of and participation in fairs, agricultural festivals, or other properly organized agricultural activities whether such fairs, festivals, and other agricultural activities are held within the boundaries of the parish making the appropriation or not.

B.  Parish governing authorities may make such appropriations through any agency or agencies they deem fit and proper.

Acts 1952, No. 388, §§1, 2.  Amended by Acts 1958, No. 493, §1; Acts 2003, No. 1144, §1.