Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 40:5-2.3

  • 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
No borough, township, city, village or other municipality shall expend any moneys for the purpose aforesaid unless and until:

(a) The county in which such loss, damage, distress and suffering has occurred shall appropriate a like sum for the same purpose.

(b) The joint commission aforesaid has been created and its recommendation or recommendations as to the expenditure of such funds has been made.

(c) A resolution making an appropriation of the necessary funds by the borough, township, city, village or other municipality has been passed by the governing body thereof, by at least a two-thirds affirmative vote of the members of such governing body.

L.1941, c. 48, p. 129, s. 3, eff. April 23, 1941.