Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 52:17A-19

  • 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.
  • 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
All moneys appropriated at the time this act becomes effective to the Attorney-General or to any officer, department, board, body, commission or instrumentality of the State Government for the compensation and expenses of attorneys, counsel, solicitors or other legal advisers to such officer, department, board, body, commission or instrumentality, whose offices or positions are abolished by this act, shall be transferred and made available to the Department of Law as of said date or as and when such appropriation shall become available. Until appropriations may become available for the next fiscal year, there is hereby appropriated the additional sum of fourteen thousand dollars ($14,000.00) for the payment of the salaries of the Attorney-General as fixed herein and his deputies and assistants as fixed by him, and also the expenses of the Attorney-General, his deputies and assistants.

L.1944, c. 20, p. 57, s. 19.