Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 40A:4-36

  • 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
  • budget: means the budget of a local unit. See New Jersey Statutes 40A:1-1
“Dedicated revenues” shall include all amounts reasonably expected to be realized in cash during the fiscal year from any source other than the issuance of bonds or notes and required by law to be applied to a specific purpose.

Dedicated revenues stated in the budget shall be classified according to their respective sources and shall be stated in a separate section of the budget, together with the appropriations to the purposes to which such dedicated revenues are applicable. The total of anticipated revenues must equal the total of appropriations.

In the event such appropriations include payments to be made for the principal of or interest on bonds or notes, the amount required for such purposes shall be separately stated.

Any anticipated deficit in expenditures to which dedicated revenues are applicable shall be provided for by an appropriation in the budget.

L.1960, c. 169, s. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1962.