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NJ Rev Stat § 52:27B-20.5 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 52 - State Government, Departments and Officers|Section 52:27B-20.5 - Program statements, data required

52:27B-20.5. Program statements, data required  5. a. In preparing its budget proposal for each State fiscal year, the department, no later than February 15 of the current State fiscal year, shall compile and submit to the State Treasurer, to the General Assembly Appropriations Committee and the Senate Revenue, Finance and Appropriations Committee, or their respective successors, and to the General Assembly Energy and Environment Committee and the Senate Environmental Quality Committee, or their respective successors, a statement for each program funded entirely or in part by fees, identifying:  (1) The objectives of the program; (2) The program classification, which shall include a summary description of all activities undertaken by each program;  (3) For the current State fiscal year, each of the two immediately preceding State fiscal years, and the State fiscal year for which the budget is proposed, program activity data, including, but not limited to, a listing of: activities performed; applications submitted and reviewed for permits, licenses or other approvals; permits, licenses or other approvals issued; planning documents reviewed; inspections performed; enforcement actions taken; remediations overseen; acreage managed; fish and game propagated and released; and studies conducted or contracted for; and  (4) For the current State fiscal year, each of the two immediately preceding fiscal years, and the State fiscal year for which the budget is proposed, personnel data, including but not limited to: the total number of positions; the total number of budgeted positions; the number of positions budgeted for in lump sum appropriations; the number of positions supported by the appropriate fees; the number of positions supported by federal funds; all other authorized positions; and the number of vacant positions.  b. In the case of a program which is funded in part by fees and in part by other sources of revenue, the department shall supply a breakdown of the percentages and relative amounts of all respective sources of revenue used to fund the program, and, if not provided pursuant to paragraph (4) of subsection a. of this section, the number and percentage of personnel involved in the program who are supported by each source of revenue.  c. The data required pursuant to paragraphs (3) and (4) of subsection a. of this section, and pursuant to subsection b. of this section, shall be actual data, revised estimated data or estimated data, in accordance with directives of the State Treasurer concerning budget program data in general.  L.1991,c.426,s.5.
NJ Rev Stat § 52:27B-21 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 52 - State Government, Departments and Officers|Section 52:27B-21 - Recommendations

52:27B-21. Recommendations  The Governor may recommend in connection with his budget message and under separate head new or additional sources of revenue, and set forth in connection therewith his recommendations as to the purpose or purposes to which such proposed new or additional revenue may be appropriated. The total of the recommendations in the budget shall not be in excess of the estimate of all funds available for disbursement during the fiscal year to which such recommendations are applicable. L.1944, c. 112, art. 3, p. 296, s. 12.
NJ Rev Stat § 52:27B-22 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 52 - State Government, Departments and Officers|Section 52:27B-22 - Applications for supplemental appropriations

52:27B-22. Applications for supplemental appropriations  All applications for supplemental appropriations not included in the budget message shall be made, in the first instance, to the commissioner in substantially the same form as is required for regular requests, setting forth how much of the amount requested will be expended in each quarter of the fiscal year. The commissioner shall certify and transmit forthwith such application to the Governor, together with his findings, comments and recommendations thereon. The Governor shall transmit to the chairman of the joint appropriations committee such applications as he shall approve in whole or in part with his recommendations thereon, but the Governor shall not approve and recommend any appropriation in excess of the total anticipated funds available for disbursement during the fiscal year to which such recommendations are applicable. L.1944, c. 112, art. 3, p. 296, s. 13.
NJ Rev Stat § 52:27B-23 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 52 - State Government, Departments and Officers|Section 52:27B-23 - Copies of budget message to be distributed

52:27B-23. Copies of budget message to be distributed  The commissioner shall cause copies of the budget message to be printed forthwith and a copy thereof shall be presented to each member of the Legislature, public libraries in the State and each newspaper in the State, and shall be available for distribution to any citizen on request. L.1944, c. 112, art. 3, p. 296, s. 14.
NJ Rev Stat § 52:27B-24 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 52 - State Government, Departments and Officers|Section 52:27B-24 - Revision and amendment of requests

52:27B-24. Revision and amendment of requests  The commissioner shall have authority, after consultation with the various spending agencies concerned, to revise and amend quarterly allotment requests to the end that each such request, as revised and amended by the commissioner, shall not exceed the amount appropriated for the spending agency. L.1944, c. 112, art. 3, p. 296, s. 15.
NJ Rev Stat § 52:27B-25 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 52 - State Government, Departments and Officers|Section 52:27B-25 - Submission of allotments to spending agencies by quarters

52:27B-25. Submission of allotments to spending agencies by quarters  Not later than the first day of June following the passage of an annual appropriation act, the commissioner shall submit to each spending agency his allotment by quarters of such appropriation. In the case of a supplemental appropriation, the commissioner shall submit his allotment by quarters within two weeks after passage of such appropriation. L.1944, c. 112, art. 3, p. 297, s. 16.
NJ Rev Stat § 52:27B-26 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 52 - State Government, Departments and Officers|Section 52:27B-26 - Reserves; revision of quarterly allotments

52:27B-26. Reserves; revision of quarterly allotments  In order to protect against and meet emergencies that may arise during each fiscal year, the commissioner shall have the power to set aside a reserve out of each appropriation, the exact amount of which shall be determined by him. Any time during the fiscal year that occasion may require this reserve or any portion of it may be returned to the appropriation to which it belongs, providing the commissioner finds such action necessary. Whenever it appears to the satisfaction of the Governor that revenues have fallen seriously below those anticipated, the commissioner, on order of the Governor, shall have the power to revise the quarterly allotments. L.1944, c. 112, art. 3, p. 297, s. 17.
NJ Rev Stat § 52:27B-27 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 52 - State Government, Departments and Officers|Section 52:27B-27 - Requests for revision

52:27B-27. Requests for revision  A request officer, whenever he deems it necessary by reason of changed conditions or for some other cogent reason, may request the commissioner to revise the work program of quarterly allotments. The commissioner shall examine such request for revision, shall promptly make a determination thereon, and shall advise such request officer as to his determination with respect thereto; and, if the request is granted, the necessary amendment to the quarterly allotments shall be made by the commissioner. L.1944, c. 112, art. 3, p. 297, s. 18.
NJ Rev Stat § 52:27B-28 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 52 - State Government, Departments and Officers|Section 52:27B-28 - Transfer of appropriations

52:27B-28. Transfer of appropriations  In order to afford reasonable flexibility, any spending agency receiving an appropriation may make written application to the commissioner for leave to transfer a part of any item granted or allowed to such spending agency to any other item in such appropriation, and such application shall indicate the quarter or quarters affected as to both items. Such application shall be made only during the current year for which the appropriation was granted. No transfer shall be authorized or made after the close of any fiscal year. The commissioner shall have authority to make such transfers of appropriation. L.1944, c. 112, art. 3, p. 297, s. 19.
NJ Rev Stat § 52:27B-29 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 52 - State Government, Departments and Officers|Section 52:27B-29 - Allotments from State Emergency Fund

52:27B-29. Allotments from State Emergency Fund  All allotments from the State Emergency Fund to an appropriation shall be authorized and allowed by the commissioner, with the approval of the Governor, but no such allotment shall be authorized until the commissioner shall have been served with a copy of the application therefor, and shall have had two days after his receipt of said application within which to submit his written recommendation thereon, together with his reasons therefor, to the Governor. All allotments thus made to an appropriation from the emergency fund shall indicate which quarterly allotment or allotments shall be increased. The warrant checks for payment of all expenditures to be made from appropriations shall be drawn on the basis of the quarterly allotments. L.1944, c. 112, art. 3, p. 298, s. 20.
NJ Rev Stat § 52:27B-30 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 52 - State Government, Departments and Officers|Section 52:27B-30 - Study of departmental requirements and personnel

52:27B-30. Study of departmental requirements and personnel  In order effectually to discharge and execute his duties in relation to the quarterly allotment system, the commissioner, or a member of the department designated by him, shall make continuous studies of all departmental requirements including personnel. All requests for additional personnel made by request officers to the civil service agency in the State Government shall first be approved by the commissioner. L.1944, c. 112, art. 3, p. 298, s. 21.
NJ Rev Stat § 52:27B-31 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 52 - State Government, Departments and Officers|Section 52:27B-31 - Governor may prohibit or control expenditures

52:27B-31. Governor may prohibit or control expenditures  Whenever, in the case of extravagance, waste or mismanagement, it appears to the satisfaction of the Governor that any appropriation by a spending agency is not in the best interest of the State, he may prohibit and enjoin such expenditure or any future expenditure under the appropriation and prescribe the terms upon which the same may be made, if at all, by making and signing an order to that effect and serving it on the request officer of such spending agency, and also serving a certified copy of the order upon the commissioner and upon the director of purchase and property, whereupon the order shall immediately become operative. Upon such service future expenditures under the appropriation shall be limited according to the terms of the executive order. The Governor, in such cases, may make other and further orders as may be necessary or advisable in his discretion which orders shall become operative upon such service. L.1944, c. 112, art. 3, p. 298, s. 22.
NJ Rev Stat § 52:27B-32 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 52 - State Government, Departments and Officers|Section 52:27B-32 - Provisions not applicable to Legislature

52:27B-32. Provisions not applicable to Legislature  Nothing in this act concerning the work program of quarterly allotments shall apply to the Legislature. L.1944, c. 112, art. 3, p. 299, s. 23.
NJ Rev Stat § 52:27B-33 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 52 - State Government, Departments and Officers|Section 52:27B-33 - Bureau of Accounting established; functions

52:27B-33. Bureau of Accounting established; functions  There is hereby established in the Division of Budget and Accounting the Bureau of Accounting. The commissioner, through the Bureau of Accounting, shall prescribe the procedures for the collection of revenues; institute and direct prosecution against delinquent officers of the revenue and for just claims and accounts against the State; provide and maintain a uniform system of accounting for the State, its departments, institutions, courts and other State agencies. The commissioner, through the Bureau of Accounting, shall follow the provisions and procedure set forth in sections twenty-five through thirty-eight, inclusive, of this article. L.1944, c. 112, art. 3, p. 299, s. 24.
NJ Rev Stat § 52:27B-34 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 52 - State Government, Departments and Officers|Section 52:27B-34 - Deposit of revenues; reports

52:27B-34. Deposit of revenues; reports  All State revenue collected by any department, institution, commission, board, committee or official of this State shall, except as otherwise provided by law, be deposited, in the method prescribed by the commissioner, to the credit of the State of New Jersey in such depositories as the State Treasurer shall designate. A report of such moneys collected shall be submitted to the commissioner and the State Treasurer in such form as the commissioner shall prescribe. Such report shall be submitted not later than the tenth day of the month following that during which such moneys were received. The commissioner, upon receiving such report, shall audit and register all amounts contained therein and make proper accounting thereof. L.1944, c. 112, art. 3, p. 299, s. 25.
NJ Rev Stat § 52:27B-35 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 52 - State Government, Departments and Officers|Section 52:27B-35 - Commissioner may prescribe forms

52:27B-35. Commissioner may prescribe forms  The commissioner shall have authority to prescribe uniform forms to be used by all departments or other agencies of the State Government in encumbering any funds appropriated. The commissioner shall prepare the forms upon which shall be rendered all statements of indebtedness against any department, institution, commission, committee, official, board, or body of State Government. The forms, in this section provided, shall, when so prepared, be the only forms used for the evidence and record of such encumbrances and indebtedness. L.1944, c. 112, art. 3, p. 300, s. 26.
NJ Rev Stat § 52:27B-36 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 52 - State Government, Departments and Officers|Section 52:27B-36 - Certain powers and duties of State Comptroller transferred to Division of Budget and Accounting

52:27B-36. Certain powers and duties of State Comptroller transferred to Division of Budget and Accounting  The powers and duties heretofore vested by P.L.1940, c. 35, in the State Comptroller are hereby transferred to the Division of Budget and Accounting and to the commissioner, as the head thereof, to be exercised through the Bureau of Accounting. L.1944, c. 112, art. 3, p. 300, s. 27.
NJ Rev Stat § 52:27B-37 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 52 - State Government, Departments and Officers|Section 52:27B-37 - Designation of officer to approve encumbrance requests and statements of indebtedness; investigations by commissioner; warrants

52:27B-37. Designation of officer to approve encumbrance requests and statements of indebtedness; investigations by commissioner; warrants  Each department, commission, committee, official, board or body of any institution or organization of the State shall designate the proper officer who shall approve and sign all encumbrance requests and statements of indebtedness. The designation shall be filed in the office of the commissioner; and the requests and statements of indebtedness shall be presented to the commissioner. The commissioner shall examine, audit and adjust all encumbrances and statements of indebtedness so presented. He may administer an oath to the persons presenting the encumbrance or statement of indebtedness and to any witness presented on behalf of such person and may examine such person or witness as to the truth, fairness and correctness of such encumbrance or statement of indebtedness. The commissioner shall execute and register warrant checks in settlement of statements of indebtedness, approved by him, and shall transmit them forthwith to the State Treasurer who shall thereupon sign and deliver the same to the payees. L.1944, c. 112, art. 3, p. 300, s. 28.
NJ Rev Stat § 52:27B-38 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 52 - State Government, Departments and Officers|Section 52:27B-38 - Checks and drafts for transfer of funds between depositories need not be signed by commissioner

52:27B-38. Checks and drafts for transfer of funds between depositories need not be signed by commissioner  Checks or drafts used only for the transfer of State funds from one depository to another, drawn to the order of the State of New Jersey and restrictively endorsed by the treasurer in the following manner: "Transfer of State Funds--For Deposit Only," need not be signed by the commissioner. L.1944, c. 112, art. 3, p. 301, s. 29.
NJ Rev Stat § 52:27B-39 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 52 - State Government, Departments and Officers|Section 52:27B-39 - Certain laws applying to comptroller to apply to commissioner instead

52:27B-39. Certain laws applying to comptroller to apply to commissioner instead  Wherever a provision of law relating to the presentation of claims or bills for approval, the drawing of warrants, the countersigning of receipts and checks, and the administration of petty cash funds, the apportionment of taxes on railroad and canal property, applies to the Comptroller, such provision of law shall when this act takes effect apply instead to the commissioner. L.1944, c. 112, art. 3, p. 301, s. 30.
NJ Rev Stat § 52:27B-40 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 52 - State Government, Departments and Officers|Section 52:27B-40 - Centralized payroll system; notice of payroll changes

52:27B-40. Centralized payroll system; notice of payroll changes  The commissioner shall have authority to prescribe and enforce, to every extent practicable, a centralized payroll system. For the purposes of the preaudit of all payrolls, the commissioner shall have authority to require of the civil service agency in the State Government notice of payroll changes in the form prescribed by the commissioner, which form the commissioner is hereby authorized to prescribe. L.1944, c. 112, art. 3, p. 301, s. 31.
NJ Rev Stat § 52:27B-41 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 52 - State Government, Departments and Officers|Section 52:27B-41 - Secretary of State to notify banks of termination of power of State Treasurer and commissioner

52:27B-41. Secretary of State to notify banks of termination of power of State Treasurer and commissioner  The Secretary of State shall, when the offices of State Treasurer and commissioner or either of them shall become vacant or the officers or either of them shall no longer be authorized to act as such, respectively, give written notice forthwith to all national banks located in this State and institutions authorized by the State to carry on a banking business of such vacancy or termination of power. No bank shall thereafter pay any check or draft of the State Treasurer, signed or countersigned by any person after his office shall become vacant or after he shall no longer be authorized to act. L.1944, c. 112, art. 3, p. 301, s. 32.
NJ Rev Stat § 52:27B-42 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 52 - State Government, Departments and Officers|Section 52:27B-42 - Suits in name of State for recovery of money

52:27B-42. Suits in name of State for recovery of money  The commissioner shall, except as otherwise provided by law, cause suit to be instituted in any competent court of this or any other State for the recovery of any money due the State or any of its institutions, departments, commissions or officers. The suit shall be in the name of the "State of New Jersey" as plaintiff. L.1944, c. 112, art. 3, p. 301, s. 33.
NJ Rev Stat § 52:27B-43 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 52 - State Government, Departments and Officers|Section 52:27B-43 - Commissioner to keep accounts

52:27B-43. Commissioner to keep accounts  The commissioner shall keep and maintain, at all times, within the division all such books of accounts and other accounting records leading to and including the general ledger as may be necessary for the centralized control of all accounts. L.1944, c. 112, art. 3, p. 302, s. 34.
NJ Rev Stat § 52:27B-44 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 52 - State Government, Departments and Officers|Section 52:27B-44 - Double-entry accounts; requirements

52:27B-44. Double-entry accounts; requirements  The commissioner shall install, keep and maintain in the division a complete set of double-entry accounts, which shall reflect directly or through proper controlling accounts, on an accrual basis, all assets, liabilities, revenues, and expenditures of the State, and all of its accounting agencies. Such accounts shall reflect all accounts receivable and payable, all balances of all funds, and such other information as is required for a proper statement of the financial conditions and operations of the State. L.1944, c. 112, art. 3, p. 302, s. 35.
NJ Rev Stat § 52:27B-45 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 52 - State Government, Departments and Officers|Section 52:27B-45 - Form of accounts; reports

52:27B-45. Form of accounts; reports  The commissioner shall prescribe and enforce the form, manner and content of accounts to be kept by each accounting agency, and the form, manner and content of accounting reports and statements to be rendered to him with respect thereto. The commissioner, if he deems such action necessary, may install a system of accounts in an accounting agency of the State Government. He shall provide for reports and statements to be submitted to him at least once each month which shall show the complete operation of each accounting agency and such other information as may be necessary in his judgment. This requirement shall not be in limitation of such other reports and statements, at longer or shorter intervals, containing the same or other information, as may be necessary in the judgment of the commissioner. L.1944, c. 112, art. 3, p. 302, s. 36.