§ 41-4-95 — Appropriations Wrongfully Expended

Alabama § 41-4-95

• Jurisdiction: Alabama
• Title 41: State Government
• Ch. 4: Department of Finance
• Art. 4: Division of the Budget

Text

It shall be unlawful for any trustee, commissioner, director, manager, building committee, or other officer or person connected with any department, institution, bureau, board, commission, or other state agency to which an appropriation is made to expend any appropriation for any purpose other than that for which the money was appropriated, budgeted, and allotted, or to consent thereto. If the Governor shall ascertain that any department, institution, bureau, board, commission, or other state agency has used any of the moneys appropriated to it for any purpose other than that for which the money was appropriated, budgeted, and allotted and not in strict accordance with the provisions of law, the Governor shall have the power and he or she is hereby authorized to suspend all appropriations and allotments to such department, institution, bureau, board, commission, or other state agency until and after such amounts diverted or wrongfully expended have been replaced.

Legislative History

(Acts 1932, Ex. Sess., No. 37, p. 35; Code 1940, T. 55, §106.)