(a) The Attorney General shall notify the Controller in writing when all claims for which an appropriation is made to the the Department of Justice or the Attorney General pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 965 have been paid. The Controller shall, at the close of the fiscal year in which notice of payment is received from the Attorney General, cause any undisbursed balance to revert to the fund from which the appropriation was made.

(b) Whenever an appropriation exceeds the actual amount necessary to satisfy a settlement in accordance with the settlement agreement or a judgment, the excess shall revert to the fund from which the appropriation was made.

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Terms Used In California Government Code 965.3

  • 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.
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • Subdivision: means a subdivision of the section in which the term occurs unless some other section is expressly mentioned. See California Government Code 10

(Added by Stats. 1990, Ch. 1244, Sec. 1. Effective September 24, 1990.)