530 ARTICLE.I5A

ARTICLE I5A.

BUDGET AND PROCUREMENT.

	Budget Administration. 1. Payment of requisitions. 2-3. Unexpended balances. 4. Excess receipts. 5. Gifts or legacies. 6-7. Unestimated receipts. 8. Budget schedules; amendments. 9. Reduction of items of appropriation. 10. Lump sum appropriations. 11. Change in salaries. 12. Excess expenditures prohibited. Department of Budget and Procurement. 13. Director; appointment and term.	Budget Bureau. 14-16. Duties and powers of Director. 17. Tentative budget. 18-19. Survey and study of departments; recommendations. 20. Director to furnish data to General Assembly. 21. Budget amendments. Purchasing Bureau. 22. Abolition of Central Purchasing Bureau. 23. Purchase of supplies, etc.; standards; contracts. 24. Employees not be interested in con- tracts; printing. 25. Preference for Maryland products; ex- ceptions. 26. Reports, studies, etc.

Budgetary Administration.

1939, ch. 64, sec. 1.

1. The several amounts set out in every appropriation bill passed by
both Houses of the General Assembly, or so much:thereof as shall be suf-
ficient to accomplish the purposes designated, shall be paid by the Trea-
surer, on warrant of the Comptroller, upon requisition of the respective
departments, boards, commissions, officers and. institutions of the State,
and expended for the several purposes specified in every such bill, sub-
ject to the provisions of this sub-title.

1939, ch. 64, sec. 2.

2. Every department, board, commission, officer and institution re-
ceiving an appropriation for operating expenses) and every State agency
whose expenses are paid out of fees, collected, shall notify the Comptroller,
at least ten days before the end of the fiscal year f or which such appropria-
tion is made, whether and to what extent the unexpended balance of such
appropriation, if any there will be at the end of the said fiscal year, is
needed to meet obligations incurred during that year and which will be
unpaid at the end thereof. Any unexpended balance of such appropriation,
against which there will, be no outstanding obligations at the end of the
fiscal year, except balances from sources dedicated by any Apt of Congress
or by the laws of the State to some specific purpose or purposes, shall
revert to the General Treasury of the State at the end of the fiscal year.

1939, ch. 64, sec. 3.

3. Any, unexpended balance of an appropriation for the acquisition
of land, buildings, equipment, new construction, or other capital expendi-