N.Y. County Law § 375: Allotments of appropriations

§ 375. Allotments of appropriations. 1. Where the board of supervisors

of a county, by action taken pursuant to section three hundred

seventy-six, provides that this section shall apply to such county, the

head of each administrative unit shall submit to the budget officer, at

the time specified by him, a work program for the ensuing fiscal year,

which program shall include all appropriations for operation and

maintenance and purchase of equipment and shall show the requested

allotments of such appropriations for such administrative unit by

quarterly periods for the entire fiscal year. The budget officer shall

review the requested allotments in the light of the work program of the

administrative unit and may revise, alter, or change the requested

allotments before approving the same. The aggregate of the allotments

for any administrative unit shall not exceed the amount appropriated for

such administrative unit for the fiscal year. A copy of the allotments

as finally approved by the budget officer shall be filed with the chief

fiscal officer and expenditures shall be made only in accordance with

such approved allotments as revised. Approved allotments may be revised

during the fiscal year by the budget officer in the same manner as the

original allotment was made.

2. If, at any time during the fiscal year the budget officer shall

ascertain that the available revenues, including the proceeds of the tax

on real estate, for such year will be less than the total

appropriations, he shall reconsider the work programs and allotments of

the several administrative units and make a revision thereof, so as to

prevent the making of expenditures in excess of the amounts available

therefor.