2005 Connecticut Code - Sec. 4-99. Commitment of appropriations prior to beginning of fiscal period.

      Sec. 4-99. Commitment of appropriations prior to beginning of fiscal period. Any appropriation for a fiscal year of a biennium shall be available for commitment fifteen days before the beginning of the fiscal period for which such appropriation was made, provided the Comptroller shall have on file an allotment covering such commitment, but no commitment thus effected shall be liquidated before the beginning of such fiscal period.

      (1949 Rev., S. 270; 1961, P.A. 464; 1971, P.A. 1, S. 14; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-3, S. 44, 168.)

      History: 1961 act added proviso comptroller have allotment on file; 1971 act deleted reference to biennial appropriation reflecting the change from biennial to annual sessions; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-3 amended language to reflect change from annual to biennial budget, effective July 1, 1992, and first applicable to biennium commencing July 1, 1993.

      Cited. 200 C. 386, 395.