2014 Indiana Code TITLE 4. STATE OFFICES AND ADMINISTRATION ARTICLE 10. STATE FUNDS GENERALLY CHAPTER 15. WARRANTS ON GENERAL FUND TO ISSUE WHEN GENERAL ASSEMBLY FAILS TO APPROPRIATE MONEY FOR BENEVOLENT INSTITUTIONS
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IC 4-10-15
Chapter 15. Warrants on General Fund to Issue When
General Assembly Fails to Appropriate Money for Benevolent
Institutions
IC 4-10-15-1
General assembly; failure to pass appropriation bills; warrants on
state treasury
Sec. 1. Whenever there shall be a failure at any regular biennial
session of the General Assembly to pass an appropriation bill or bills,
making appropriations for the objects and purposes hereinafter
mentioned, it shall be lawful for the Governor, Secretary and
Treasurer of State, until appropriations shall be made by the
Legislature, to direct the Auditor of State to draw his warrants on the
State Treasury for such sums as they may, from time to time, decide
to be necessary for such purposes respectively, not however
exceeding the amounts appropriated for the same objects respectively
by the last preceding appropriations which shall have been made by
the General Assembly; and to pay such warrants as may, from time
to time, be drawn and presented, a sufficient sum of money is hereby
appropriated.
(Formerly: Acts 1869(ss), c.5, s.1.)
IC 4-10-15-2
Warrants on state treasury for necessary expenses
Sec. 2. The warrants may be drawn for the necessary and current
expenses of the following:
(1) All psychiatric hospitals (as defined in IC 12-7-2-184).
(2) The Indiana School for the Deaf, established by
IC 20-22-2-1.
(3) The Indiana School for the Blind and Visually Impaired,
established by IC 20-21-2-1.
(4) The Indiana Veterans' Home.
(5) The Plainfield Juvenile Correctional Facility.
(Formerly: Acts 1869(ss), c.5, s.2.) As amended by Acts 1976,
P.L.44, SEC.15; P.L.2-1993, SEC.33; P.L.12-1996, SEC.2;
P.L.69-1999, SEC.1; P.L.1-2005, SEC.57; P.L.218-2005, SEC.1.
IC 4-10-15-3
Drawing warrants on general fund; confinement to current
expenses; monthly allowances
Sec. 3. The warrants so to be drawn shall be drawn on the General
Fund and not otherwise, and shall not include any sum or sums for
enlarging said Institutions, or any or either of them, but shall be
confined strictly to the necessary current expenses of said Institutions
respectively, and said allowances shall be made monthly upon the
certificate of the President of the proper Board of Trustees of the said
Institutions respectively, showing in detail the necessity for the
amount demanded, and that it has been approved by such Board,
which certificate shall be countersigned by the Superintendent of the
particular Institution for which the expense was incurred.
(Formerly: Acts 1865(ss), c.5, s.3.)
IC 4-10-15-4
Current expenses; amount of monthly allowances
Sec. 4. In making said monthly allowances, it shall be the duty of
the officers as aforesaid authorized to make the same, not to exceed
in any one month one-twelfth of the amount appropriated for the
current expenses of the same Institution for the last preceding year
for which an appropriation shall have been made by the General
Assembly.
(Formerly: Acts 1865(ss), c.5, s.4.)
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