Terms Used In Missouri Laws 253.050

  • 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.
  • hereafter: means the time after the statute containing it takes effect. See Missouri Laws 1.020

Except as, or as hereafter may be, otherwise provided by law no contract shall be entered into or obligations incurred, nor shall any payment or expenditure of money be made under the provisions of sections 253.010 to 253.100 except in accordance with and by virtue of, an appropriation as provided by law.