§ 711. Transfer of appropriations.

(a)

Transfers of funds from appropriations contained in a current expense budget to appropriations contained in a capital budget may be authorized by the county administrative officer only with the approval of the county executive and a majority of the total number of county council members established by this Charter.

(b)

Inter-program transfers of not more than ten per cent of appropriations in a current expense budget between general classification of expenditures within the same office, department, institution, board, commission, or other agency may be authorized by the county administrative officer. Inter-program transfers in excess of ten per cent of appropriations in a current expense budget between general classifications of expenditures within the same office, department, institution, board, commission, or other agency may be made by the county administrative officer only with the approval of the county executive and a majority of the total number of county council members established by this Charter. Inter-agency transfers in a current expense budget between offices, departments, institutions, boards, commissions, or other agencies of the county government may be made during the last quarter of the fiscal year and then only on the recommendation of the county executive and with the approval of not less than a majority of the total number of county council members established by this Charter.

(c)

Inter-project transfers of funds between specific projects contained in a capital budget appropriation may be authorized by the county administrative officer with the approval of the county executive and a majority of the total number of county council members established by this Charter.

(d)

When any budget appropriation transfer is presented to the county council under this section, it may be presented by verbal motion and seconded and acted upon by a verbal vote. If the motion carries by the required number of votes, the approval of the council shall be signified by the signing by the chairman of the county council of the document containing such transfer. A permanent record of each member's vote shall be maintained.

(Bill No. 100, 1962, § 1, approved by voters Nov. 6, 1962, effective Dec. 6, 1962; Bill No. 86, 1978, § 1, approved by voters Nov. 7, 1978; effective Dec. 8, 1978)

Editor's note

The publisher corrected a former reference to "classification" to read "classifications" in subsection (b). The word "classifications" was used in Bill 100-62, which enacted the language and it appeared in the 1968 and 1978 Codes and the annual cumulative supplements to the 1978 Code from 1979 to 1985. The change to "classification" was made inadvertently in the 1986 cumulative supplement to the 1978 Code.