Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 44:7-37

  • 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
  • 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.
If the board of chosen freeholders shall have made no appropriation in its annual budget to carry out the provisions of this act for the fiscal year in which this act was adopted, said board may appropriate and use any county funds not otherwise appropriated or dedicated, or may appropriate and raise such funds as may be necessary for such purpose for such fiscal year, and may borrow the same, or any part thereof, on the credit of the county, and may issue obligations therefor, in the same manner as other similar obligations are issued under the provisions of Title 40 of the Revised Statutes.

L.1950, c. 218, p. 544, s. 2.