Connecticut § 4-100 Penalty for exceeding appropriations; exceptions.

Connecticut Statutes

§ 4-100 — Penalty for exceeding appropriations; exceptions.

Connecticut § 4-100

Title 4Management of State Agencies

Ch. 50Office of Policy and Management: General Provisions; Budget and Appropriations; State Planning

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Conn. Gen. Stat. § 4-100 (2026).

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Whenever any specific appropriation of money has been made by the General Assembly or by any community or corporation as provided in section 7-121, each agent, commissioner or executive officer of the state, except as provided in sections 4-87 and 4-99, or of any town, city, borough or school district, who wilfully authorizes or contracts for the expenditure of any money or the creation of any debt for any purpose in excess of the amount specifically appropriated for such purpose by the General Assembly or the community or corporation of which he is agent, commissioner or executive officer, unless such expenditure is made or debt contracted for the necessary repair of roads or bridges, or the necessary support of schools or paupers, in cases arising after the proper appropriation has been 

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Whenever any specific appropriation of money has been made by the General Assembly or by any community or corporation as provided in section 7-121, each agent, commissioner or executive officer of the state, except as provided in sections 4-87 and 4-99, or of any town, city, borough or school district, who wilfully authorizes or contracts for the expenditure of any money or the creation of any debt for any purpose in excess of the amount specifically appropriated for such purpose by the General Assembly or the community or corporation of which he is agent, commissioner or executive officer, unless such expenditure is made or debt contracted for the necessary repair of roads or bridges, or the necessary support of schools or paupers, in cases arising after the proper appropriation has been exhausted, shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned in a community correctional center not more than one year or both.

Legislative History

(1949 Rev., S. 271; 1959, P.A. 152, S. 6; 1969, P.A. 297.) History: 1959 act deleted references to county appropriations; 1969 act replaced jails with community correctional centers. Penalty attaches only when a specific appropriation has been made and exceeded. 58 C. 462. Does not apply to governmental duty of municipality, or holding election. 89 C. 563; 96 C. 7. Payment to materialman not a violation of section where amount appropriated has been paid to contractor. 109 C. 558. Cited. 111 C. 515; 193 C. 670; 200 C. 386.