{"data":{"id":"us-mi/mich.-comp.-laws-18.1451","jurisdiction":"us-mi","citation":"Mich. Comp. Laws § 18.1451","heading":"Lapse of unencumbered balance of appropriation; unascertainable documents; charging encumbrance to next succeeding fiscal year.","body":"Sec. 451.\n\nAt the close of the fiscal year, the unencumbered balance of each appropriation shall lapse to the state fund from which it was appropriated. A document which is not ascertainable before the cutoff date set by the director may be charged against a current year's appropriation if the chief accounting officer determines that the state agency was not willful in its failure to ascertain or record the document and if the amount of the payment would not have exceeded the unencumbered balance of the applicable appropriation in the prior fiscal year.\n\nAn encumbrance entered into within 15 days before the end of the fiscal year and outstanding at the close of the fiscal year is not a charge against that fiscal year but is charged to the next succeeding fiscal year.","path":["MI Code","Chapter 18","Act Act-431-of-1984"],"source_url":"https://www.legislature.mi.gov/Laws/MCL?objectName=mcl-18-1451","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:31Z","sha256":"0b4d3b78790f0b28697a7a0d3740a231c2e267ebc95843877053a44065becb06","source_id":"us-mi","stale":false,"prev":"us-mi/mich.-comp.-laws-18.1448","next":"us-mi/mich.-comp.-laws-18.1451a"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}