New Jersey Statutes 40A:4-40. Reserve for uncollected taxes; appropriation
Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 40A:4-40
- 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
- fiscal year: means the period for which a local unit adopts a budget, as required pursuant to the "Local Budget Law" N. See New Jersey Statutes 40A:1-1
- Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
- State: extends to and includes any State, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia and the Canal Zone. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
a. The total of all current budget appropriations (except for reserve for uncollected taxes);
b. The amounts due or to become due for school, county, State, local and special district taxes prior to the end of the fiscal year; and
c. The amounts of any other anticipated current expenditures for the fiscal year.
In the event that the exact amount of any such lawful yearly expenditure shall not be known at the time of the adoption of the budget, the amount thereof shall be estimated, but no such estimate shall be less than the amount of such lawful yearly expenditure for the next preceding fiscal year; provided, however, that in the case of a Type II school district, the lawful yearly expenditure for the amount due or to become due for school taxes prior to the end of the fiscal year shall be based upon the proposed budget submitted by the local board of education to the commissioner pursuant to section 28 of P.L.1975, c. 212 (C. 18A:7A-28).
L.1960, c. 169, s. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1962. Amended by L.1978, c. 136, s. 26, eff. Oct. 30, 1978; L.1979, c. 23, s. 3, eff. Feb. 8, 1979.