Terms Used In Alabama Code 9-15-17

  • 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.
  • 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

All funds which shall be retained by the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources as charges against the income from any lands administered by the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources under authority of this article shall be delivered to the State Treasurer by the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources, and the State Treasurer shall keep said funds in a special fund, which fund shall be used only for the preservation, management, protection and improvement of unused lands and shall be paid out upon the requisition of the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources. Any balance remaining in said fund at the end of any fiscal year shall not revert to the General Funds of the state but shall be allowed to accumulate to the end that a fund may be provided for the management, protection, development and improvement of unused lands; provided, that no funds shall be withdrawn nor expended for any purpose whatsoever unless the same shall have been allotted and budgeted in accordance with the provisions of Article 4 of Chapter 4 of Title 41 of this code, and only in the amounts and for the purposes provided by the Legislature in the general appropriation bill.