Salt Lake Telegram | 1925-10-04 | Page 2 | Budget Law of 1924 Held Not Yet in Force

BUDGET LA lAW Of I 1 4 HElD NOT YET IN fORGE FORCE Atty Gen Cluff Oluff Submits Submits Submits Sub Sub- mits Opinion on on Public Expenditure Responding to a request from County Attorney A. A E. E Moreton Attorney Attorney Attorney At At- torney General Harvey H. H Cluff in inan inan inan an opinion delivered Saturday holds that the budget laws enacted b by the thelast thelast thelast last state legislature limiting ex expenditures expenditures ex- ex to prepared budgets cannot cannot cannot can can- not be applied to expenditures for forthe forthe forthe the current year Although the law was passed with an emergency clause attached th the act Itself sets forth that esti estimates mates of the needs of the various departments for fOl the next suc succeeding year shall not be submitted before October 1 1 and the county auditor then has Was until November 1 to prepare prepare prepare pre pre- pare the budget and submit it to the county Thereafter There There- after the after the county board is given until until until un un- un- un til December 31 to pass an appropriation appropriation appropriation I ordinance definitely fixing the budget It is js also expressly set forth that expenditures must be kept within the budget Thus according to the attorney general while the act went Into ef effect effect ef- ef feet on March 5 5 1925 it could not be enforced for the current year since this would have required the formulation of budgets In the fall of 1924 1024 or before the law was passed The law as construed will permit permit permit per per- mit county departments t to exceed the limitations of their current budgets budgets budgets bud bud- budI I gets in the discretion of the con com com- missioners Otherwise the law would have prohibited the c county auditor from Issuing his warrant for any sum sumin in excess of the statutory limitation it is said S