{"data":{"id":"us-wy/wyo.-stat.-16-12-402","jurisdiction":"us-wy","citation":"Wyo. Stat. § 16-12-402","heading":"Definitions.","body":"(a) As used in this article:\n(i) \"Appropriation\" means an allocation of money to be expended for a specific purpose;\n(ii) \"Budget\" means a plan of financial operations for a fiscal year embodying estimates of all proposed expenditures, the proposed means of financing them and what the work or service is to accomplish;\n(iii) \"Budget year\" means the fiscal year or years for which a budget is prepared;\n(iv) \"Department\" means the state department of audit;\n(v) \"Estimated revenue\" means the amount of revenues estimated to be received during the budget year in each fund;\n(vi) \"Fiscal year\" means the annual period for recording fiscal operations beginning July 1 and ending June 30;\n(vii) \"Fund balance\" means the excess of the assets over liabilities, reserves and contributions, as reflected by an entity's books of account;\n(viii) \"Proposed budget\" means the budget presented for public hearing as required by W.S. 16-12-406 and formatted as required by W.S. 9-1-507(a)(viii) and 16-12-403;\n(ix) \"Unappropriated surplus\" means the portion of the fund balance of a budgetary fund which has not been appropriated or reserved in an ensuing budget year.","path":["TITLE 16 - CITY, COUNTY, STATE AND LOCAL POWERS","CHAPTER 12 - SPECIAL DISTRICTS","ARTICLE 4 - ADMINISTRATION OF FINANCES"],"source_url":"https://wyoleg.gov/statutes/compress/title16.pdf","current_through":"2026 Budget Session; as of 2026-07-01","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-04T00:16:32Z","sha256":"a4572ab169eedc86dcb8eabf30604865e89912569a4b589f471446401bd9950b","source_id":"us-wy","stale":false,"prev":"us-wy/wyo.-stat.-16-12-401","next":"us-wy/wyo.-stat.-16-12-403"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}