Terms Used In Missouri Laws 196.947

  • 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
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • State: when applied to any of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" includes such district and territories. See Missouri Laws 1.020

All moneys received for state milk inspection shall be deposited in the state treasury and credited to the “State Milk Inspection Fee Fund”, which is hereby created, subject to appropriation by the general assembly and to be appropriated to the state milk board and used exclusively for the purpose of defraying the cost of state milk inspection and to other state agencies for such services in addition thereto that are provided by the state government. The state milk board shall remit to the treasury of the local jurisdictions for which it may contract to provide services for administering milk inspection if other than by its own employees, moneys not exceeding five cents per one hundred pounds of milk or milk products. The unexpended balance in the state milk inspection fee fund at the end of the biennium shall not be transferred to the general revenue fund of the state treasury and, accordingly, shall be exempt from the provisions of section 33.080 relating to the transfer of funds to the general revenue fund of the state by the state treasurer. The financial proceedings of the board shall be subject to an annual audit by a certified public accountant and the audit report shall be a public record, subject to the inspection by the general public.