Terms Used In Michigan Laws 404.52

  • 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
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l
  • 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
   No such appropriation of funds shall be legal unless the institution or agency for which the appropriation is made, is incorporated under the laws of this state, is undenominational and is so organized that its benefits are available to any person regardless of nationality, residing in the state. Each and every institution or agency which benefits by an appropriation made by any board of supervisors shall keep an accurate record and account of all moneys received and expended and file a report of its expenditures at the October session of the board of supervisors following the appropriation. The books containing the receipt and expenditure of funds for the care, training or treatment of its inmates shall be available to any citizen of this state.