The General Assembly shall appropriate from time to time a sufficient sum of money, based on estimates and recommendations made by the adjutant general and approved by the Governor, for the purpose of paying the expenses incident to carrying out this chapter. All money so appropriated by the General Assembly shall continue and be kept in the state treasury as a separate fund to be known as the "military fund." None of the moneys placed in the military fund shall be converted into the general fund of the state treasury, and no part of the military fund shall be used for any purpose except as shall be authorized by law.
(Ga. L. 1916, p. 158, § 3; Code 1933, § 86-901; Ga. L. 1951, p. 311, § 10; Ga. L. 1955, p. 10, § 62.)
OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
Military fund to be used for military purposes only.
- Statute clearly provides that all moneys appropriated to the military fund shall be used for military purposes only, and does not provide for the establishment of a canteen service. 1945-47 Op. Att'y Gen. p. 53 (rendered under former Code 1933.
Lapse of appropriations.
- Appropriations of state funds to the Department of Defense which are not spent or contractually committed in writing lapse at the end of the fiscal year notwithstanding the provision for a continuing "military fund" in O.C.G.A. § 38-2-170. 1994 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 94-22.