When, in any act, lump sum appropriations are made for personal service, or for maintenance and operation, or for maintenance and operation including personal service, other than such appropriations for the Legislature, judiciary, or for expenses of holding elections, no monies so appropriated shall be available for payments for personal service, or maintenance and operation, or maintenance and operation including personal service, except specified appropriations for temporary services or day labor until a schedule of positions and salaries and the amounts to be available for the expenses of maintenance and operation shall have been approved by the Director of the Budget and a certificate of such approval filed with the request officer of the spending agency concerned and the Division of Central Accounting and Reporting. Any such approved schedule may be amended, however, with the approval of the Director of the Budget and the filing of a certificate thereof as provided above. The request officer for each spending agency shall show on the forms provided, how he proposes to classify the expenditures for that spending agency, and such classification shall follow, (except for items peculiar to certain departments or institutions), the uniform budget and accounting classifications adopted for similar spending agencies. The Budget Director shall not have authority to fix the amount of salary or eliminate any position listed on such schedule. However, he shall not approve said segregation schedule in the event the total requested to be allotted fails to reserve a sufficient balance of the lump sum appropriation to finance the operations of the spending agency concerned for the remainder of that fiscal year, considering any possible failure in the revenue estimated to be collected for that fiscal year. The Budget Director shall not have the authority to curtail the operation of any particular part of the program, but shall order a reduction in the total program only where insufficient revenues are anticipated to carry on the program for the period concerned.

Added by Laws 1947, SB 36, p. 373, § 11, emerg. eff. February 25, 1947.