Arkansas § 19-2-104 Expenditures, contracts, or obligations in excess of appropriations prohibited

Arkansas Statutes

§ 19-2-104 — Expenditures, contracts, or obligations in excess of appropriations prohibited

Arkansas § 19-2-104

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Bluebook

Ark. Code Ann. § 19-2-104 (2026).

Text

(a)(1) No officer, employee, or agent of the State of Arkansas, nor any board of regents or board of trustees, nor any other person or authority who may make expenditures of money appropriated for the different state institutions or who may direct the expenditure of such money so appropriated shall expend or direct the expenditure of moneys or funds in excess of the amount appropriated and becoming a part of any appropriation by executive approval for the particular purpose named in the act making the appropriations.

(2)No officer, employee, agent, person, board, or authority shall make any contract that will exceed the amount appropriated and becoming a part of any appropriation act by executive approval for the particular purpose named in the act making the appropriation.

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(a) (1) No officer, employee, or agent of the State of Arkansas, nor any board of regents or board of trustees, nor any other person or authority who may make expenditures of money appropriated for the different state institutions or who may direct the expenditure of such money so appropriated shall expend or direct the expenditure of moneys or funds in excess of the amount appropriated and becoming a part of any appropriation by executive approval for the particular purpose named in the act making the appropriations. (2) No officer, employee, agent, person, board, or authority shall make any contract that will exceed the amount appropriated and becoming a part of any appropriation act by executive approval for the particular purpose named in the act making the appropriation. (3) No officer, agent, person, board, or authority shall incur any obligation for any purpose in excess of the amount appropriated and becoming a part of any appropriation by executive approval for the particular purpose named in the act making the appropriation, except as provided. (b) Any person violating a provision of this section shall be guilty of a violation and upon conviction shall be fined in any sum not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than two hundred dollars ($200).

Legislative History

Acts 1913, No. 234, §§ 1, 5; C. & M. Dig., §§ 2838, 2842, 9245, 9249; Pope's Dig., §§ 3562, 3566, 11931, 11935; A.S.A. 1947, §§ 13-625, 13-626; Acts 2005, No. 1994, § 101.