Terms Used In Utah Code 10-6-125

  • Appropriation: means an allocation of money by the governing body for a specific purpose. See Utah Code 10-6-106
  • 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
  • Budget: means a plan of financial operations for a fiscal period which embodies estimates of proposed expenditures for given purposes and the proposed means of financing them. See Utah Code 10-6-106
  • Department: means any functional unit within a fund that carries on a specific activity, such as a fire or police department within a city general fund. See Utah Code 10-6-106
  • Fund: is a s defined by generally accepted accounting principles as reflected in the Uniform Accounting Manual for Utah Cities. See Utah Code 10-6-106
  • Governing body: means a city council, or city commission, as the case may be, but the authority to make any appointment to any position created by this chapter is vested in the mayor in the council-mayor optional form of government. See Utah Code 10-6-106
     At the request of the budget officer or upon its own initiative, the governing body by resolution may transfer any unencumbered or unexpended appropriation balance or portion thereof from one department in a fund to another within the same fund, provided that no appropriation for debt retirement and interest, reduction of deficit, or other appropriation required by law or ordinance shall be reduced below the minimums required.

Enacted by Chapter 26, 1979 General Session