Whenever any payment heretofore or hereafter made by a state agency for work, services, materials or equipment performed or furnished under this article or any other law by another state agency was erroneous, in excess of the amount that should have been paid or was unearned, the State Controller shall, upon request of the state agency which received such payment, refund such erroneous, excess or unearned amount by transferring an amount equal thereto from the fund or appropriation credited with the overpayment to the fund or appropriation from which said payment was made.

(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1433.)

Terms Used In California Government Code 11262

  • 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 California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Government Code 18
  • state agency: includes every state office, officer, department, division, bureau, board, and commission. See California Government Code 11000