{"data":{"id":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-14-58-203","jurisdiction":"us-ar","citation":"Ark. Code Ann. § 14-58-203","heading":"Appropriations and changes","body":"(a) The approval by the municipal governing body of the budget under this subchapter shall, for the purposes of the budget from time to time amount to an appropriation of funds which are lawfully applicable to the items therein contained. (b) The governing body may alter or revise the budget and unpledged funds appropriated by the governing body for any purpose may be subsequently, by action of the governing body, appropriated to another purpose, subject to the following exceptions: (1) Funds resulting from taxes levied under statutes or ordinances for specific purposes may not be diverted to another purpose; (2) Appropriated funds may not be diverted to another purpose where any creditor of the municipality would be prejudiced thereby. Acts 1959, No. 28, § 3; A.S.A. 1947, § 19-4423.\n\n(a) The approval by the municipal governing body of the budget under this subchapter shall, for the purposes of the budget from time to time amount to an appropriation of funds which are lawfully applicable to the items therein contained.\n\n(b) The governing body may alter or revise the budget and unpledged funds appropriated by the governing body for any purpose may be subsequently, by action of the governing body, appropriated to another purpose, subject to the following exceptions: (1) Funds resulting from taxes levied under statutes or ordinances for specific purposes may not be diverted to another purpose; (2) Appropriated funds may not be diverted to another purpose where any creditor of the municipality would be prejudiced thereby.\n\n(1) Funds resulting from taxes levied under statutes or ordinances for specific purposes may not be diverted to another purpose;\n\n(2) Appropriated funds may not be diverted to another purpose where any creditor of the municipality would be prejudiced thereby.","path":["AR Code","Title 14","Chapter 58","Subchapter 2"],"source_url":"https://oss-data-us.vaquill.ai/v2026.08/us_ar_statutes.parquet","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T21:35:43Z","sha256":"0ef5b535af324050df51b48f7f7e3ed1e81ec5ba74eaf24ad50e5649c4980ff6","source_id":"us-ar","stale":false,"prev":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-14-58-202","next":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-14-58-301","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},{"id":"pro-ar","title":"Arkansas Release 78 supplement","text":"Arkansas electronic product files were republished by Public.Resource.Org under a public-domain mark. GroundRules uses enacted text from Release 78 only as a labeled supplement to the newer Open US Law rows.","url":"https://archive.org/details/gov.ar.code"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}