2013 Vermont Statutes
Title 32 Taxation and Finance
Chapter 9 APPROPRIATIONS
§ 706 Transfer of appropriations

706. Transfer of appropriations

Notwithstanding any authority granted elsewhere, all transfers of appropriations shall be made pursuant to this section upon the initiative of the Governor, or upon the request of a secretary or commissioner.

(1) With the approval of the Governor, the Commissioner of Finance and Management may transfer balances of appropriations not to exceed $50,000.00 made under any appropriation act for the support of the government from one component of an agency, department, or other unit of State government, to any component of the same agency, department, or unit.

(2) Except as specified in subdivisions (1) and (4) of this section, the transfer of balances of appropriations may be made only with the approval of the Emergency Board.

(3) For the specific purpose of balancing and closing out fund accounts at the end of a fiscal year, the Commissioner of Finance and Management may adjust a balance within an account of an agency or department in an amount not to exceed $100.00.

(4) [Repealed.] (Added 1959, No. 328 (Adj. Sess.), 6; amended 1971, No. 92, 16, eff. June 1, 1971; 1977, No. 247 (Adj. Sess.), 188, eff. April 17, 1978; 1979, No. 74, 321; 1983, No. 195 (Adj. Sess.), 5(b); 1999, No. 11, 1; 1999, No. 66 (Adj. Sess.), 53, eff. Feb. 8, 2000; 2003, No. 80 (Adj. Sess.), 79, eff. March 8, 2004; 2005, No. 80, 52; 2007, No. 65, 395, eff. June 4, 2007; 2011, No. 3, 90, eff. Feb. 17, 2011; 2011, No. 153 (Adj. Sess.), 29.)