Sec. 4-84. Contingency appropriation.
Sec. 4-84. Contingency appropriation. The budget as submitted by the Governor
to the General Assembly shall include a recommended appropriation for contingencies
not to exceed one hundred thousand dollars for each fiscal year of the ensuing biennium.
Wherever an emergency exists and the Governor is of the opinion that the necessities
of a budgeted agency warrant an increased appropriation or it is necessary to provide
for emergency expenditures, he may approve such expenditures as he deems necessary
and for the best interest of the public from such contingency appropriation, provided
the total amount of individual allotments from such appropriation shall not exceed the
total amount of the contingency appropriation as established by the General Assembly.
Additions to specific appropriations for current expenses of any state court or for current
expenses of state institutions or for maintenance of inmates therein or for the reimbursement of towns for relief, support and hospitalization furnished state paupers or for forest
fire suppression shall not be considered as within the total appropriation for such contingencies. The Governor shall report to the General Assembly, not later than the first
session day following the third day of February in each odd-numbered year, all increases
made by him under authority of this section and the reasons therefor. In the even-numbered years, the Governor shall submit such report on the day on which the General
Assembly first convenes.
(1949 Rev., S. 237; 1951, S. 85d; 1957, P.A. 396, S. 1; 1971, P.A. 1, S. 10; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-3, S. 42, 168.)
History: 1971 act changed language to reflect switch from biennial to annual sessions; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-3 amended
language to reflect change from annual to biennial budget, effective July 1, 1992, and first applicable to biennium commencing July 1, 1993.
Cited. 193 C. 670. Cited. 200 C. 386.