(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a state agency may not expend money received from the trust unless the expenditure is in accordance with an appropriation made by law.

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Terms Used In Alaska Statutes 37.14.405

  • 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
  • state: means the State of Alaska unless applied to the different parts of the United States and in the latter case it includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
(b) Appropriations made to satisfy the requirement of (a) of this section may be made by general appropriations of program receipts conditioned on compliance with the program review provisions of Alaska Stat. § 37.07.080(h).
(c) The provisions of (b) of this section do not apply to amounts paid as reimbursements to the state, as authorized by the Memorandum of Agreement and Consent Decree establishing the trust, for expenses that are

(1) related to the Exxon Valdez oil spill; and
(2) incurred by the state on or before December 31, 1992.