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urn: urn:us-la:rs:39:352
citation: "R.S. 39:352"
status: active
breadcrumb: "Title 39 › Subtitle I › Chapter 1 › Part XII"
acts_citations:
  - { year: 1976, number: 649, section: 1, effective_date: null, role: enactment }
  - { year: 2001, number: 1091, section: 1, effective_date: 2001-06-28, role: amendment }
  - { year: 2013, number: 420, section: 4, effective_date: 2013-06-21, role: amendment }
  - { year: 2015, number: 87, section: 1, effective_date: 2015-07-01, role: amendment }
  - { year: 2018, number: 612, section: 11, effective_date: 2018-07-01, role: amendment }
  - { year: 2018, number: 642, section: 3, effective_date: 2018-06-02, role: amendment }
  - { year: 2019, number: 404, section: 1, effective_date: 2020-07-01, role: amendment }
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# Cancellation of unexpended portions of appropriations; exceptions

Whenever any specific appropriation is made to meet any item of expenditure which occurs annually by provision of law or for contingent expense, and any portion of it remains unexpended at the end of the year for which the specific appropriation was made, after all legal claims against it for the year have been paid, the commissioner of administration shall cancel any balance of the appropriation, and each succeeding year he shall open a new account for the appropriation which may be made for that particular year, without carrying forward any unexpended balance of appropriation made for any previous year. This provision shall not apply to appropriations made to pay the debt of the state, principal and interest.