§ 611. Lapsed appropriations.

Unless otherwise provided by public general law, all unexpended and unencumbered appropriations in the current expense budget remaining at the end of the fiscal year shall lapse into the County treasury, except that appropriations to the risk management and grants funds and to the Citizens' Election Fund shall be non-reverting. No appropriation for a capital project in the capital budget shall lapse until the purpose for which the appropriation was made shall have been accomplished or abandoned; provided, however, that any capital project shall stand abandoned if three fiscal years elapse without any expenditure from or encumbrance of the appropriation made therefor. The balances remaining to the credit of the completed or abandoned capital project shall be available for appropriation in subsequent capital budgets.

Editor's note

An amendment to § 611 proposed by Res. No. 122, 1988 was approved at an election held Nov. 8, 1988, and became effective Dec. 8, 1988. An amendment to § 611 proposed by Res. No. 104, 2012 was approved at an election held on Nov. 6, 2012, and became effective on Dec. 6, 2012. An amendment to § 611 proposed by Res. No. 27, 2016 was approved at an election held on Nov. 8, 2016, and became effective on Dec. 8, 2016.