(a) No department or officer under such department shall enter into any contract, agreement, or obligation, involving the expenditure of money, unless the commissioner of finance and administration shall first certify that there is a balance in the appropriation from which such obligation is required to be paid, that is not otherwise encumbered to pay obligations previously incurred.
Terms Used In Tennessee Code 9-4-5113
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
Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
Reporter: Makes a record of court proceedings and prepares a transcript, and also publishes the court's opinions or decisions (in the courts of appeals).
State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply to the general assembly, state court system, attorney general and reporter, district attorneys general, district public defenders, office of the post-conviction defender, secretary of state, comptroller of the treasury, and the state treasurer; provided, however, that the chief administrative officer for each of these agencies shall ensure, before entering into any contract, agreement, or obligation involving the expenditure of money, that there is a balance in the appropriation from which such obligation is required to be paid that is not otherwise encumbered to pay obligations previously incurred.(c) All funds appropriated to the secretary of state, comptroller of the treasury, and state treasurer shall be administered in a ministerial capacity by the department of finance and administration in accordance with budgets and any revisions thereto of the respective entities for which such appropriations are made.
