Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 206E-16.5

  • 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
  • Authority: means the Hawaii community development authority established by section 206E-3. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206E-2
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.

Except as to administrative expenditures, and except as otherwise provided by law, expenditures from any special fund administered by the authority may be made by the authority without appropriation or allotment of the legislature; provided that no expenditure shall be made from and no obligation shall be incurred against any special fund in excess of the amount standing to the credit of the fund or for any purpose for which the fund may not lawfully be expended. Nothing in sections 37-31 to 37-41 shall require the proceeds of any special fund administered by the authority to be reappropriated annually.