Rhode Island General Laws 35-6-16. Payments for work on projects specifically appropriated for
Whenever the general assembly shall make any appropriation for the erection or repair of any public building, or any armory of any military company, or any appropriation for any specified work to be done and performed, the state controller shall require satisfactory proof that the work specified in the appropriation has been faithfully done, according to the terms of the appropriation, before the money appropriated for the purpose shall be drawn from the state treasury; or, if the appropriation contemplates that portions of the money appropriated shall be drawn as the work progresses, the money shall be drawn only in proportion to the amount of the work done, or advanced upon such security as the state controller may require shall be applied to the work.
History of Section.
G.L. 1896, ch. 34, § 10; G.L. 1909, ch. 44, § 10; G.L. 1923, ch. 45, § 10; G.L. 1938, ch. 7, § 13; impl. am. P.L. 1939, ch. 660, § 65; G.L. 1956, § 35-6-16.
Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws 35-6-16
- 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