A. If an allotment request is approved by the Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services, it shall be transmitted to the request officer of the agency concerned and to the Division of Central Accounting and Reporting.
B. Legislative appropriations or authorizations are the legal basis for expending the state's monies. Allotments shall be made against these legislative appropriations or authorizations and shall be entered on the records of the Division of Central Accounting and Reporting in such accounts as may be required by the Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services.
C. The allotments approved by the Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services shall be the portion of the appropriation set aside to cover encumbrances and expenditures for a designated purpose during a monthly, quarterly, semiannual or annual period.
D. The Division of Central Accounting and Reporting shall not approve claims for payment in excess of the amount allotted for each account approved by the Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services.
E. After the first allotments for each agency of the state have been authorized by the Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services, subsequent allotments may be authorized upon the request of an agency and with the approval of the Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services.
F. The Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services may authorize new accounts in addition to those requested in the original allotment request, or may increase the amount allotted for a monthly, quarterly, semiannual or annual period. A balance remaining in any of the allotment accounts at the end of any monthly, quarterly, or semi-annual period, shall be available for expenditure the subsequent period; however, subsequent allotment requests and the Director's approval should take into consideration any unencumbered or unexpended balance remaining at the time such subsequent requests are approved.
Added by Laws 1947, p. 373, § 10, emerg. eff. Feb. 25, 1947. Amended by Laws 2009, c. 441, § 31, eff. July 1, 2009. Renumbered from § 41.10 of this title by Laws 2009, c. 441, § 64, eff. July 1, 2009. Amended by Laws 2012, c. 304, § 378.