Skip to content

Title 48 — Territories and Insular Possessions

Chapter 8A — Guam

§ 1423j. Authorization of appropriations

Statutory text

(a)

Appropriations, except as otherwise provided in this chapter, and except such appropriations as shall be made from time to time by the Congress of the United States, shall be made by the legislature.

(b)

If at the termination of any fiscal year the legislature shall have failed to pass appropriation bills providing for payments of the necessary current expenses of the government and meeting its legal obligations for the ensuing fiscal year, then the several sums appropriated in the last appropriation bills for the objects and purposes therein specified, so far as the same may be applicable, shall be deemed to be reappropriated, item by item.

(c)

All appropriations made prior to shall be available to the government of Guam.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Organic Act of Guam

    Pub. L. 81–512 § 20 · 64 Stat. 384

    Enacted · 48 U.S.C. § 1423j

    (Aug. 1, 1950, ch. 512, § 20, 64 Stat. 389.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Aug. 1, 1950, ch. 512, § 20, 64 Stat. 389.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 20. (a) Appropriations, except as otherwise provided in this Appropriations. Art, and except such appropriations as shall be made from time to time by the Congress of the United States, shall be made by the legislature. (b) If at the termination of any fiscal year the legislature shall have failed to pass appropriation bills providing for payments of the necessary current expenses of the government and meeting its legal obligations for the ensuing fiscal year, then the several sums appropriated in the last appropriation bills for the objects and purposes therein specified, so far as the same may be applicable, shall be deemed to be reappropriated, item by item. (c) All appropriations made prior to the date of enactment of this Prior Appropriations. Act shall be available to the government of Guam.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Aug. 1, 1950, ch. 512, § 20, 64 Stat. 389.)

Parsed from the official OLRC USLM XML in data/usc_all/usc48.xml · release point 119-108 · OLRC build 2026-04-17

USLM identifier /us/usc/t48/s1423j