52:18-28. Payments from treasury on warrant of comptroller; approval of bills
No moneys shall be drawn from the state treasury to pay salaries and expenses of state employees or to defray the expenses of a department, institution, commission, board, committee or official of this state, or for or on account of a contract for building or for repairs or supplies, except upon bills presented to the state comptroller, approved as follows:
a. When a department, by the head thereof, or by a person designated by him.
b. When an institution, by a majority of the board of managers or trustees thereof, or by a person designated for that purpose by the board of managers or trustees.
c. When a board, commission or committee, by the president or chairman thereof or by a person designated by such board, commission or committee.
d. When an official not subordinate to the head of a department, by such official personally.