2006 Nebraska Revised Statutes - § 17-708 — Funds; expenditure; appropriation condition precedent.

Section 17-708
Funds; expenditure; appropriation condition precedent.

The mayor and council or board of trustees shall have no power to appropriate, issue or draw any order or warrant on the treasurer for money, unless the same has been appropriated or ordered by ordinance, or the claim for the payment of which such order or warrant is issued has been allowed according to the provisions of sections 17-714 and 17-715, and funds for the class or object out of which such claim is payable have been included in the adopted budget statement or transferred according to law.

Source:

Laws 1879, § 88, p. 226

R.S.1913, § 5186

C.S.1922, § 4373

C.S.1929, § 17-571

Laws 1935, Spec. Sess., c. 10, § 10, p. 77

Laws 1941, c. 130, § 18, p. 502

C.S.Supp.,1941, § 17-571

R.S.1943, § 17-708

Laws 1959, c. 63, § 2, p. 283

Laws 1961, c. 47, § 3, p. 185

Laws 1967, c. 78, § 3, p. 249

Laws 1969, c. 145, § 21, p. 685

Laws 1972, LB 1423, § 2

Annotations:

An appropriation is not necessary where funds to meet expenditures are not raised by taxation, the obligation being payable alone out of funds on hand and the net earnings of light plant purchased. Carr v. Fenstermacher, 119 Neb. 172, 228 N.W. 114 (1929).

~Reissue Revised Statutes of Nebraska