Terms Used In Michigan Laws 18.261

  • 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: when applied to the different parts of the United States, shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories belonging to the United States; and the words "United States" shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o
   Except to the extent expressly provided in this act, nothing contained in this act shall authorize the department to obligate the state. Nothing contained in this act shall authorize the department to construct, acquire, change the location or discontinue the use of any warehouse until approved by the legislature in the annual capital outlay appropriation act.