§ 35.33.011 Definitions
§ 35.33.020 Applicability of chapter
§ 35.33.031 Budget estimates
§ 35.33.041 Budget estimates — Classification and segregation
§ 35.33.051 Budget — Preliminary
§ 35.33.055 Budget — Preliminary — Filing — Copies
§ 35.33.057 Budget message — Hearings
§ 35.33.061 Budget — Notice of hearing on final
§ 35.33.071 Budget — Final — Hearing
§ 35.33.075 Budget — Final — Adoption — Appropriations
§ 35.33.081 Emergency expenditures — Nondebatable emergencies
§ 35.33.091 Emergency expenditures — Other emergencies — Hearing
§ 35.33.101 Emergency warrants
§ 35.33.106 Registered warrants — Payment
§ 35.33.107 Adjustment of wages, hours, and conditions of employment
§ 35.33.111 Forms — Accounting — Supervision by state
§ 35.33.121 Funds — Limitations on expenditures — Transfers
§ 35.33.123 Administration, oversight, or supervision of utility — Reimbursement from utility budget authorized
§ 35.33.125 Liabilities incurred in excess of budget
§ 35.33.131 Funds received from sale of bonds and warrants — Expenditure program — Federal tax law
§ 35.33.135 Revenue estimates — Amount to be raised by ad valorem taxes
§ 35.33.141 Report of expenditures and liabilities against budget appropriations
§ 35.33.145 Contingency fund — Creation — Purpose — Support — Lapse
§ 35.33.147 Contingency fund — Withdrawals
§ 35.33.151 Unexpended appropriations
§ 35.33.170 Violations and penalties

Terms Used In Washington Code > Chapter 35.33 - Budgets in second and third-class cities, towns, and first-class cities under three hundred thousand

  • 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
  • Chief administrative officer: as used in this chapter includes the mayor of cities or towns having a mayor-council form of government, the commissioners in cities or towns having a commission form of government, the city manager, or any other city or town official designated by the charter or ordinances of such city or town under the plan of government governing the same, or the budget or finance officer designated by the mayor, manager or commissioners, to perform the functions, or portions thereof, contemplated by this chapter. See Washington Code 35.33.011
  • Clerk: as used in this chapter includes the officer performing the functions of a finance or budget director, comptroller, auditor, or by whatever title he or she may be known in any city or town. See Washington Code 35.33.011
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Department: as used in this chapter includes each office, division, service, system or institution of the city or town for which no other statutory or charter provision is made for budgeting and accounting procedures or controls. See Washington Code 35.33.011
  • 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.
  • Fiscal year: as used in this chapter means that fiscal period set by the city or town pursuant to authority given under RCW 1. See Washington Code 35.33.011
  • Fund: as used in this chapter and "funds" where clearly used to indicate the plural of "fund" shall mean the budgeting or accounting entity authorized to provide a sum of money for specified activities or purposes. See Washington Code 35.33.011
  • Funds: as used in this chapter where not used to indicate the plural of "fund" shall mean money in hand or available for expenditure or payment of a debt or obligation. See Washington Code 35.33.011
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Legislative body: as used in this chapter includes council, commission or any other group of officials serving as the legislative body of a city or town. See Washington Code 35.33.011
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • 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.
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • person: may be construed to include the United States, this state, or any state or territory, or any public or private corporation or limited liability company, as well as an individual. See Washington Code 1.16.080
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.