Terms Used In Alabama Code 41-4-95

  • 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
  • person: includes a corporation as well as a natural person. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.

It shall be unlawful for any trustee, commissioner, director, manager, building committee or other officer or person connected with any department, institution, bureau, board, commission or other state agency to which an appropriation is made to expend any appropriation for any purpose other than that for which the money was appropriated, budgeted and allotted, or to consent thereto. If the Governor shall ascertain that any department, institution, bureau, board, commission or other state agency has used any of the moneys appropriated to it for any purpose other than that for which the money was appropriated, budgeted and allotted and not in strict accordance with the provisions of law, the Governor shall have the power and he is hereby authorized to suspend all appropriations and allotments to such department, institution, bureau, board, commission or other state agency until and after such amounts diverted or wrongfully expended have been replaced.