Terms Used In Alabama Code 16-1-22

  • 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
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • preceding: means next before. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
  • year: means a calendar year; but, whenever the word "year" is used in reference to any appropriations for the payment of money out of the treasury, it shall mean fiscal year. See Alabama Code 1-1-1

The Department of Examiners of Public Accounts is hereby authorized and empowered to audit the records of the Marion Military Institute, the Lyman Ward Military Academy, the Talladega College, the Walker County Junior College, the Tuskegee University, the Sylacauga Nurses Training School, and the Coosa Valley Medical Center School of Nursing to the same extent, degree, and scope as its audits of public educational institutions, and said institutions shall submit to the Legislature each year before any subsequent appropriation requests may be considered by the Legislature, a full accounting of their receipts, disbursements, assets, liabilities, and other resources as of the date of the close of their immediately preceding academic year.