No contract shall be made by the City Council or any committee or member thereof and no expense shall be incurred by any of the officers or departments of the city, whether the object of the expenditure is ordered by the City Council or not, unless an appropriation shall have been previously made concerning the expense, except as otherwise provided by law.
(Prior Code, § 1-918)
Statutory reference:
Similar state law provisions, see Neb. RS 16-501