Oklahoma § 62-34.49 - Allotment of appropriations - Exemption of Legislature

§ 62-34.49. Allotment of appropriations - Exemption of Legislature

A. Appropriations and/or federal funds shall be allotted for

each agency as provided by the language of the legislative

appropriation and other applicable state law. Items may be allotted

on a monthly, quarterly, semiannual or annual basis upon the written

request of the agency and the approval of the Director of the Office

of Management and Enterprise Services.

B. The request officer for each agency shall present the

proposed classification of the expenditures for that agency in such

manner as may be required by the Office of Management and Enterprise

Services.

C. Each agency shall be required to identify those items that

are for capital purposes in keeping with the definition of capital

projects promulgated by the Long-Range Capital Planning Commission.

Requests for capital appropriations and an agency's original budget

request shall be for capital projects that have been submitted to

the Long-Range Capital Planning Commission for review.

D. The Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise

Services shall review the requested allotments with respect to the

agency budget with each agency. The Director may require the agency

to change such allotments before approving them, if it is deemed

necessary, reserving a sufficient balance in the appropriation to

finance the operations of the agency for the remainder of any fiscal

year.

E. At the end of any fiscal year, the entire amount

appropriated to any agency must be allotted to the agency by the

Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services, except

where the estimated budget resources during any fiscal year are

insufficient to pay all of the appropriations of the state in full

for such year. The Director of the Office of Management and

Enterprise Services shall not allot to any agency during any fiscal

year, an amount which will be in excess of the amount of revenue

collected and allocated to appropriations made to such agency.

F. In the event of a failure of revenue, the Director of the

Office of Management and Enterprise Services shall control the

allotment to prevent obligations being incurred in excess of the

revenue to be collected. However, within each state fund where a

revenue failure occurs, the Director of the Office of Management and

Enterprise Services shall make all reductions apply to each state

agency or special appropriation made by the State Legislature, in

the ratio that its total appropriation for that fiscal year bears to

the total of all appropriations for that fiscal year, as provided in

Section 23 of Article X of the Oklahoma Constitution.

G. An allotment may be approved for any item for the entire

year or may be approved on a monthly, quarterly, or semiannual

basis, but in no case shall the aggregate of such allotments for any

agency exceed the total appropriation made available to such agency

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for the fiscal year to which they apply. Each agency's request for

appropriation allotments shall show the amount required to finance

each item of the request for the entire year and on a quarterly

basis within each fiscal year.

H. The Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise

Services shall review each allotment request for the purpose of

determining whether:

1. The itemized requests are in accordance with the agency

budget;

2. The accounting classification is sufficient to reflect the

purposes for which the expenditures are to be made;

3. The current financial requirements of the agency justify the

monthly or quarterly allotment, reserving a sufficient balance to

finance the remaining months or quarters; and

4. The realization of the estimated revenues is sufficient to

allow the allotments to be made.

I. The Legislature shall be exempt from submitting any agency

budget or allotment request.

Added by Laws 1947, p. 372, § 9, emerg. eff. Feb. 25, 1947. Amended

by Laws 1995, c. 123, § 1, eff. July 1, 1995; Laws 2009, c. 441, §

29, eff. July 1, 2009. Renumbered from § 41.9 of this title by Laws

2009, c. 441, § 64, eff. July 1, 2009. Amended by Laws 2012, c.

304, § 376.