The costs and expenses of the maintenance and support of every department, commission, bureau, and other branch or agency of the state government shall be paid out of funds in the state treasury by warrant of the Governor drawn on appropriations duly made by the General Assembly.
(Ga. L. 1927, p. 311, § 2; Code 1933, § 40-1102; Code 1981, §50-5-9; Code 1981, §50-5A-8, as redesignated by Ga. L. 1993, p. 1402, § 2; Ga. L. 2010, p. 863, § 1/SB 296.)
Editor's notes.- Ga. L. 2010, p. 863, § 1, effective July 1, 2010, reenacted this Code section without change.
JUDICIAL DECISIONS
Comptroller General is not authorized to draw warrant upon director. Irons v. Harrison, 185 Ga. 244, 194 S.E. 749 (1937).
Cited in Talmadge v. Cordell, 170 Ga. 13, 152 S.E. 91 (1930).
RESEARCH REFERENCES
Am. Jur. 2d.
- 63C Am. Jur. 2d, Public Officers and Employees, §§ 252 et seq., 346. 72 Am. Jur. 2d, States, Territories, and Dependencies, § 66.
C.J.S.- 81A C.J.S., States, §§ 374 et seq., 393.