Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 18A:22-15

  • 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
  • Board: means the board of education. See New Jersey Statutes 18A:1-1
  • District: means a school district. See New Jersey Statutes 18A:1-1
The governing body of each municipality comprising a type I district shall, upon the receipt of the certificate of the board of school estimate:

a. Appropriate the amount, so certified, for the use of the public schools in the district for the ensuing school year, if such appropriations in the district are not made upon a calendar year basis; or

b. Appropriate not less than one half of the amount, so certified, if such appropriations in the district are made upon a calendar year basis, and in any year except the first in which such appropriation is so made, appropriate also the unappropriated balance, if any, of the sum previously certified by the board of school estimate for the current school year.

L.1967, c.271.