ARTICLE XV: BUDGET AND APPROPRIATIONS

SECTION

   1.   Fiscal year of the city.

   2.   When budget to be submitted to City Council by city manager.

   3.   City manager's budget message.

   4.   Budget to be financial plan; city manager to organize; budget categories.

   5.   City manager to submit to City Council a five year capital improvement plan; content.

   6.   Budget process - notice and hearing, amendment before adoption, adoption.

   7.   Capital program process - notice and hearing, adoption.

   8.   Budget and capital program to be public record.

   9.   Appropriations - supplemental, emergency, reduction, transfer, limitations.

   10.   When appropriations lapse.

   11.   Work programs and allotments; when payment and obligations prohibited.

   12.   Audit of books and accounts of city.

Editor's note:

   Priv. Acts 1972, ch. 416, sec. 14 deleted in its entirety, Article XV, titled Budget and Appropriations and replaced it with a new Article XV by the same title. Priv. Acts 2014, ch. 55, sec. 1 deleted in its entirety Article XV, titled Budget and Appropriations, and replaced it with a new Article XV by the same title.

Section 1. Fiscal year of the city.

Be it further enacted, that the fiscal year of the city shall begin on the first day of July and end on the last day of June. (As amended by Priv. Acts 1972, ch. 416, sec. 14 and Priv. Acts 2014, ch. 55, sec. 1)

Section 2. When budget to be submitted to City Council by city manager.

Be it further enacted, that on or before the first day of April of each year, the city manager shall submit to the City Council a budget for the ensuing fiscal year and an accompanying message. (As amended by Priv. Acts 1972, ch. 416, sec. 14, Priv. Acts of 1995, ch. 55, sec. 2, and Priv. Acts 2014, ch. 55, sec. 1)