2021 Georgia Code
Title 28 - General Assembly
Chapter 5 - Financial Affairs
Article 2 - Fiscal Affairs Subcommittees
§ 28-5-25. Joint Meetings to Review and Approve Budget Unit Object Class Transfers; Limitations Upon Transfers
The fiscal affairs subcommittees shall meet jointly as one committee at least once each quarter, or more often, at the call of the Governor, for the purpose of reviewing and approving budget unit object class transfers recommended by the Governor. Such transfers shall not be made without the approval of at least 11 members of such subcommittees sitting jointly. No funds whatsoever shall be transferred for use in commencing any new program or activity which does not currently have an appropriation or which would require operating funds or capital outlay funds beyond the biennium in which such transfer is made.
(Ga. L. 1967, p. 722, § 6.)
OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERALThe delegation of power to the fiscal affairs subcommittees by the General Assembly is valid. 1970 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 70-68.
Authority to transfer funds.- The fiscal affairs subcommittees have the authority to authorize the transfer of funds of the State Properties Control Commission (now State Properties Commission) from operating expenses to personal services for the purpose of creating two full-time positions and increasing the salary of the part-time coordinator. 1970 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 70-182.
Budget object transfers of the Department of Audits and Accounts must be recommended by the Governor before they can be acted upon by the fiscal affairs subcommittees. 1970 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 70-37.
A transfer of operating and personal service class funds so as to permit the Department of Agriculture to award a contract for the construction of a city farmers market, previously partially funded by capital outlay funds in an appropriation, would be a proper transfer of funds by the fiscal affairs subcommittees. 1974 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 74-9.
Prior appropriation is not new program.- If the function or activity of warehousing material currently had an appropriation in a department's budget, then the construction of the warehouse would be part of that activity and would not be a new program or activity. 1972 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 72-72.
RESEARCH REFERENCES
Am. Jur. 2d.
- 72 Am. Jur. 2d, States, Territories, and Dependencies, § 51 et seq.
C.J.S.- 81A C.J.S., States, § 91.
