Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1410.50

  • 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
  • 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.
  • Fund: means the state general fund. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1410.42
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.

Notes shall be payable solely from the revenues pledged thereto, and the registered owners or holders of the notes may not look to any other source for repayment of the principal of or interest on the notes.  In every case, the revenues pledged shall be those which are the subject of appropriation for the current fiscal year and are yet to be credited to the applicable fund.  The cash, income, and receipts authorized to be pledged to the repayment of the notes authorized hereby, which are not issued in accordance with the provisions of La. Const. Art. VII, § 6(A) , are the cash, income, and receipts derived from those sources described in La. Const. Art. VII, § 6(C) .  “An undertaking” within the meaning of said Section 6(C) is hereby defined to include the operation and business of the state.  Unless issued in accordance with the provisions of La. Const. Art. VII, § 6(A) , the notes shall not constitute a full faith and credit obligation or indebtedness of the state within the meaning of any provision of the constitution or statutes.

Acts 1991, No. 827, §1.