Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 40A:4-42

  • 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.
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • local unit: means a county or municipality. See New Jersey Statutes 40A:1-1
An appropriation for “cash deficit of preceding year” shall appear in each annual budget in the amount by which the liabilities and cash disbursements of the local unit for expenditures in the fiscal year next preceding exceed the cash receipts and other realized revenues in such next preceding fiscal year, except to the extent that such lawful yearly expenditures have been provided for by surplus anticipated in the budget of such years.

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