(a)  Each district association shall raise funds for the purposes provided in this chapter. Each city or town within its respective district is authorized to appropriate and turn over to the treasurer of the association serving that district any sums that the city or town may approve.

Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws 2-3-6

  • 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
  • District association: means a county or district organization established to undertake the purposes of cooperative extension and to cooperate with the Land Grant College (the University of Rhode Island), the U. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-3-1
  • 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.
  • town: may be construed to include city; the words "town council" include city council; the words "town clerk" include city clerk; the words "ward clerk" include clerk of election district; the words "town treasurer" include city treasurer; and the words "town sergeant" include city sergeant. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-9
  • United States: include the several states and the territories of the United States. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-8

(b)  For the purpose of paying the state’s share of the annual expenses of the cooperative educational work provided for in §§ 2-3-1 — 2-3-6, the general assembly shall annually appropriate any sum that it deems necessary. Any district association not raising within the district covered by the district association, exclusive of funds received from any agency of the United States, an amount equal to the sum appropriated by the state for use by that district association shall draw from the state appropriation during the fiscal year only a sum equal to the amount raised by that district association, exclusive of funds received from any agency of the United States, and expended during the fiscal year as shown by a certificate filed in the office of the state controller, sworn to by the president and treasurer of the district association. The state controller is authorized and directed to draw orders upon the general treasurer for the payment of any sums authorized upon the presentation of the certificates and vouchers signed respectively by the president and treasurer of the district association.

History of Section.
P.L. 1988, ch. 553, § 2.