Title 48 — Territories and Insular Possessions
Chapter 8A — Guam
§ 1423j. Authorization of appropriations
Statutory text
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.
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.
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.
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.)