Before an appropriation for administration, operation and maintenance of any department or establishment shall become available, there shall be submitted to the director of the department of management, not less than twenty days before the beginning of each quarter of each fiscal year, a requisition for an allotment of the amount estimated to be necessary to carry on its work during the ensuing quarter. The requisition shall contain details of proposed expenditures as may be required by the director of the department of management subject to review by the governor.
The director of the department of management shall approve the allotments subject to review by the governor, unless it is found that the estimated budget resources during the fiscal year are insufficient to pay all appropriations in full, in which event such allotments may be modified to the extent the governor may deem necessary in order that there shall be no overdraft or deficit in the several funds of the state at the end of the fiscal year, and the director shall submit copies of the allotments thus approved or modified to the head of the department or establishment concerned, who shall set up such allotments on the books and be governed accordingly in the control of expenditures.
Allotments of appropriations made for equipment, land, permanent improvements, and other capital projects may, however, be allotted in one amount by major classes or projects for which they are expendable without regard to quarterly periods. For fiscal years beginning on or after July 1, 1989, allotments of appropriations for equipment, land, permanent improvements, and other capital projects, except where contracts have been entered into with regard to the acquisition or project prior to July 1, 1989, shall not be allotted in one amount but shall be allotted at quarterly periods as provided in this section.
Allotments thus made may be subsequently modified by the director of the department of management at the direction of the governor either upon the written request of the head of the department or establishment concerned, or in the event the governor finds that the estimated budget resources during the fiscal year are insufficient to pay all appropriations in full, upon the governor's own initiative to the extent the governor may deem necessary in order that there shall be no overdraft or deficit in the several funds of the state at the end of the fiscal year; and the head of the department or establishment shall be given notice of a modification in the same way as in the case of original allotments.
Provided, however, that the allotment requests of all departments and establishments collecting governmental fees and other revenue which supplement a state appropriation shall attach to the summary of requests a statement showing how much of the proposed allotments are to be financed from (1) state appropriations, (2) stores, and (3) repayment receipts.
The procedure to be employed in controlling the expenditures and receipts of the state fair board and the institutions under the state board of regents, whose collections are not deposited in the state treasury, is that outlined in section 421.31, subsection 6.
If the governor determines that the estimated budget resources during the fiscal year are insufficient to pay all appropriations in full, the reductions shall be uniform and prorated between all departments, agencies and establishments upon the basis of their respective appropriations.
Allotments from appropriations for the foreign trade offices of the department of economic development, if the appropriations are described by line item in the department's appropriation Act or another Act, may be made without regard to quarterly periods as is necessary to take advantage of the most favorable foreign currency exchange rates.
[C35, § 84-e24; C39, § 84.24; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 8.31; 81 Acts, ch 18, § 1]
86 Acts, ch 1245, § 1972; 87 Acts, ch 115, § 4; 89 Acts, ch 309, § 6; 94 Acts, ch 1063, § 1
Referred to in § 8.30, 8.32, 8.57, 97B.7
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