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AL Code § 45-8A-23.120 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 8A - Calhoun County Municipalities.|Article 2 - Anniston.|Part 4 - Goverrning Body.|Division 5 - Budget.|Section 45-8A-23.120 - Fiscal Year.

Section 45-8A-23.120Fiscal year. The fiscal year of the city government shall begin on the first day of each October and shall end on the last day of each September. Such fiscal year shall also constitute the budget and accounting year. As used in this part, the term budget year shall mean the fiscal year for which any particular budget is adopted and in which it is administered.  (Acts 1953, No. 404, p. 472, §5.01; Acts 1973, No. 247, p. 278, §1.)
AL Code § 45-8A-23.121 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 8A - Calhoun County Municipalities.|Article 2 - Anniston.|Part 4 - Goverrning Body.|Division 5 - Budget.|Section 45-8A-23.121 - Preparation and Submission of Budget Proposal.

Section 45-8A-23.121Preparation and submission of budget proposal. The city manager, at least 35 days prior to the beginning of each budget year, shall submit to the council a budget proposal and an explanatory budget message in the form and with the contents provided by Sections 45-8A-23.131 to 45-8A-23.134, inclusive. For such purpose, at such date as he or she shall determine, he, she, or an officer designated by him or her, shall obtain from the head of each office, department, board, or agency estimates of revenue and expenditure of that office, department, board, or agency, detailed by organization units and character and object of expenditure, and such other supporting data as he or she may request; together with an estimate of all capital projects pending or which such department head believes should be undertaken (a) within the budget year and (b) within the five next succeeding years. In preparing the budget, the city manager shall review the estimates, shall hold hearings thereon and may revise the estimates, as he or she may deem advisable. (Acts 1953, No. 404, p. 472, §5.02.)
AL Code § 45-8A-23.122 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 8A - Calhoun County Municipalities.|Article 2 - Anniston.|Part 4 - Goverrning Body.|Division 5 - Budget.|Section 45-8A-23.122 - Budget Proposal a Public Record.

Section 45-8A-23.122Budget proposal a public record. The budget proposal and budget message and all supporting schedules shall be a public record in the office of the city clerk open to public inspection by anyone. The city manager shall cause sufficient copies of the budget proposal and budget message to be prepared for distribution to interested persons. (Acts 1953, No. 404, p. 472, §5.03.)
AL Code § 45-8A-23.123 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 8A - Calhoun County Municipalities.|Article 2 - Anniston.|Part 4 - Goverrning Body.|Division 5 - Budget.|Section 45-8A-23.123 - Publication of Notice of Public Hearing.

Section 45-8A-23.123Publication of notice of public hearing. At the meeting of the council at which the budget proposal and budget message are submitted, the council shall determine the date and time of the public hearing on the budget proposal, and shall cause to be published a notice of the place and date, not less than seven days after the date of publication nor later than 15 days prior to the beginning of the next budget year, at which the council will hold a public hearing. Publication shall be made at least once in a daily newspaper published and of general circulation in the city. (Acts 1953, No. 404, p. 472, §5.04.)
AL Code § 45-8A-23.124 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 8A - Calhoun County Municipalities.|Article 2 - Anniston.|Part 4 - Goverrning Body.|Division 5 - Budget.|Section 45-8A-23.124 - Public Hearing on Budget Proposal.

Section 45-8A-23.124Public hearing on budget proposal. At the time and place specified in the advertisement or at any time at which the public hearing may from time to time be adjourned, the council shall hold a public hearing on the budget proposal, at which time all interested persons shall be given an opportunity to be heard, for or against the estimates or any item thereof. (Acts 1953, No. 404, p. 472, §5.05; Acts 1973, No. 247, p. 278, §1.)
AL Code § 45-8A-23.125 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 8A - Calhoun County Municipalities.|Article 2 - Anniston.|Part 4 - Goverrning Body.|Division 5 - Budget.|Section 45-8A-23.125 - Further Consideration of Proposal.

Section 45-8A-23.125Further consideration of proposal. After the conclusion of such public hearing the council may insert new items or may increase or decrease the items of the budget proposal, except items in proposed expenditures, fixed by law or prescribed by subsections (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g), (h), and (i) of Section 45-8A-23.144. The council may not vary the titles, descriptions, or conditions of administration specified in the budget proposal. Before inserting any new item or increasing or decreasing any item of appropriation, it shall cause to be published, in the manner provided in Section 45-8A-23.123, a notice setting forth the nature and amount of the proposed increases or decreases and fixing a place and date, not less than five days after publication, at which the council shall hold a public hearing thereon. The public hearing shall be held at the time and place specified in the notice or at any time and place at which such public hearing shall from time to time be adjourned. (Acts 1953, No. 404, p. 472, §5.06; Acts 1973, No. 247, p. 278, §1.)
AL Code § 45-8A-23.126 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 8A - Calhoun County Municipalities.|Article 2 - Anniston.|Part 4 - Goverrning Body.|Division 5 - Budget.|Section 45-8A-23.126 - Adoption of Budget.

Section 45-8A-23.126Adoption of budget. After the public hearing prescribed in Section 45-8A-23.124, the council may at its next or any subsequent regular public meeting or any adjournment thereof adopt as the budget, the budget proposal without amendment or change. In this event it shall not be necessary that the council have further consideration of the ordinance as prescribed in Section 45-8A-23.125. If such further consideration is made necessary by the insertion of any new item or by the increase or decrease of any item, then the council, after the public hearing prescribed in Section 45-8A-23.125, may at its next or any subsequent regular meeting or any adjournment thereof, adopt the budget. The council may insert in this budget the additional item or items or make the increase or decrease to the amount in each case indicated by the published notice, or to a lesser amount, but where the total proposed expenditures shall be increased, the total anticipated revenue shall also be increased to an amount at least equal to the total proposed expenditures. (Acts 1953, No. 404, p. 472, §5.07.)
AL Code § 45-8A-23.127 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 8A - Calhoun County Municipalities.|Article 2 - Anniston.|Part 4 - Goverrning Body.|Division 5 - Budget.|Section 45-8A-23.127 - Vote Required for Adoption.

Section 45-8A-23.127Vote required for adoption. The budget shall be adopted by the favorable votes of at least a majority of the whole qualified membership of the council. (Acts 1953, No. 404, p. 472, §5.08.)
AL Code § 45-8A-23.128 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 8A - Calhoun County Municipalities.|Article 2 - Anniston.|Part 4 - Goverrning Body.|Division 5 - Budget.|Section 45-8A-23.128 - Date of Final Adoption; Failure to Adopt.

Section 45-8A-23.128Date of final adoption; failure to adopt. The budget shall be finally adopted not later than the twenty-seventh day of November of each year. Should the council take no final action on or prior to such day, the budget proposal, as submitted, shall be deemed to have been finally adopted as the budget by the council. (Acts 1953, No. 404, p. 472, §5.09.)
AL Code § 45-8A-23.129 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 8A - Calhoun County Municipalities.|Article 2 - Anniston.|Part 4 - Goverrning Body.|Division 5 - Budget.|Section 45-8A-23.129 - Effective Date of Budget; Certification; Copies Made Available.

Section 45-8A-23.129Effective date of budget; certification; copies made available. Upon final adoption, the budget shall be in effect for the budget year. A copy of the budget, as finally adopted, shall be certified by the city manager and city clerk and filed in the office of the director of finance. The budget so certified shall be printed, mimeographed, or otherwise reproduced and sufficient copies thereof shall be made available for the use of all offices, departments, boards, and agencies and for the use of interested persons. (Acts 1953, No. 404, p. 472, §5.10.)
AL Code § 45-8A-23.130 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 8A - Calhoun County Municipalities.|Article 2 - Anniston.|Part 4 - Goverrning Body.|Division 5 - Budget.|Section 45-8A-23.130 - Budget Establishes Appropriations.

Section 45-8A-23.130Budget establishes appropriations. From the effective date of the budget, the several amounts stated therein as proposed expenditures shall become appropriated to the several objects and purposes therein named. (Acts 1953, No. 404, p. 472, §5.11.)
AL Code § 45-8A-23.131 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 8A - Calhoun County Municipalities.|Article 2 - Anniston.|Part 4 - Goverrning Body.|Division 5 - Budget.|Section 45-8A-23.131 - Budget Message - Current Operations.

Section 45-8A-23.131Budget message - Current operations. The budget message submitted by the city manager to the council shall be explanatory of the budget of the budget proposal and shall contain an outline of the proposed financial policies of the city for the budget year and shall describe in connection therewith the important features of the budget plan. It shall set forth the reasons for proposed important changes from the previous year in cost and revenue items and shall point up and explain any proposed important changes in policy. (Acts 1953, No. 404, p. 472, §5.12.)
AL Code § 45-8A-23.132 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 8A - Calhoun County Municipalities.|Article 2 - Anniston.|Part 4 - Goverrning Body.|Division 5 - Budget.|Section 45-8A-23.132 - Budget Message - Capital Improvements.

Section 45-8A-23.132Budget message - Capital improvements. As a part of the budget message, with relation to the proposed expenditures for down payments and other proposed expenditures for capital projects stated in the budget proposal, the city manager shall include a statement of pending capital projects and proposed new capital projects, relating each project to respective amounts proposed to be raised therefor by appropriations in the budget proposal and the respect amounts, if any, proposed to be raised therefor by the issuance of bonds or obligations during the budget year. (Acts 1953, No. 404, p. 472, §5.13.)
AL Code § 45-8A-23.133 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 8A - Calhoun County Municipalities.|Article 2 - Anniston.|Part 4 - Goverrning Body.|Division 5 - Budget.|Section 45-8A-23.133 - Budget Message - Capital Program.

Section 45-8A-23.133Budget message - Capital program. The city manager shall also include in the budget message, or attach thereto, a capital program of proposed capital projects for the five fiscal years next succeeding the budget year, prepared by the planning board, if any, together with his or her comments thereon and any estimates of costs prepared by any office, department, board, or agency. For the use of the planning board, if any, in preparing such capital program, copies of the departmental estimates of capital projects, filed with the city manager pursuant to Section 45-8A-23.121, shall be filed with the board. (Acts 1953, No. 404, p. 472, §5.14.)
AL Code § 45-8A-23.134 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 8A - Calhoun County Municipalities.|Article 2 - Anniston.|Part 4 - Goverrning Body.|Division 5 - Budget.|Section 45-8A-23.134 - Budget Message - Supporting Schedules.

Section 45-8A-23.134Budget message - Supporting schedules. Attached to the budget message shall be such supporting schedules, exhibits, and other explanatory material, in respect to both current operations and capital improvements, as the city manager shall believe useful to the council. (Acts 1953, No. 404, p. 472, §5.15.)
AL Code § 45-8A-23.135 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 8A - Calhoun County Municipalities.|Article 2 - Anniston.|Part 4 - Goverrning Body.|Division 5 - Budget.|Section 45-8A-23.135 - Contents of Complete Financial Plan.

Section 45-8A-23.135Contents of complete financial plan. The budget and budget proposal shall provide a complete financial plan for the budget year. It shall contain in tabular form: (a) A general summary; (b) Detailed estimates of all anticipated revenues; (c) Detailed estimate of all proposed expenditures. The total of such anticipated revenues shall equal the total of such proposed expenditures. (Acts 1953, No. 404, p. 472, §5.16.)
AL Code § 45-8A-23.136 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 8A - Calhoun County Municipalities.|Article 2 - Anniston.|Part 4 - Goverrning Body.|Division 5 - Budget.|Section 45-8A-23.136 - Anticipated Revenues.

Section 45-8A-23.136Anticipated revenues. In the budget and budget proposal anticipated revenues shall be classified as "surplus," "miscellaneous revenues," and "amount to be raised by property tax"; miscellaneous revenues shall be sub-classified by sources and shall be estimated as prescribed in this subpart. (Acts 1953, No. 404, p. 472, §5.17.)
AL Code § 45-8A-23.137 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 8A - Calhoun County Municipalities.|Article 2 - Anniston.|Part 4 - Goverrning Body.|Division 5 - Budget.|Section 45-8A-23.137 - Anticipated Revenues Compared With Other Years.

Section 45-8A-23.137Anticipated revenues compared with other years. In the budget and budget proposal in parallel columns opposite the several items of anticipated revenues there shall be placed the amount of each such item in the budget of the last completed fiscal year, the amounts of such items actually received during the last completed budget year, the amount of each such item in the budget of the current fiscal year and the amount actually received to the time of preparing the budget proposal plus receipts for the remainder of the current fiscal year estimated as accurately as may be. (Acts 1953, No. 404, p. 472, §5.18.)
AL Code § 45-8A-23.138 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 8A - Calhoun County Municipalities.|Article 2 - Anniston.|Part 4 - Goverrning Body.|Division 5 - Budget.|Section 45-8A-23.138 - Surplus.

Section 45-8A-23.138Surplus. Surplus shall include: (a) Revenue receipts made available by the lapsing of unencumbered appropriation balances at the beginning of the budget year; (b) Receipts from unanticipated miscellaneous revenues of the preceding fiscal year; (c) Receipts from anticipated miscellaneous revenues of the preceding fiscal year in excess of the estimates in the budget; (d) Receipts during the previous fiscal year from taxes or liens against which a complete reserve has been established. (Acts 1953, No. 404, p. 472, §5.19.)
AL Code § 45-8A-23.139 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 8A - Calhoun County Municipalities.|Article 2 - Anniston.|Part 4 - Goverrning Body.|Division 5 - Budget.|Section 45-8A-23.139 - Miscellaneous Revenues - Generally.

Section 45-8A-23.139Miscellaneous revenues - Generally. Miscellaneous revenues shall include anticipated revenues from the collection of taxes other than the general property tax; the amount of state aid to be received; the amount by which the city is expected to benefit from taxes collected by the state; the amounts estimated to be received from services and sales, fines, and forfeitures, pension or retirement system payments, special assessments, borrowed monies, and any other special or non-recurring sources. Nothing in this section shall, however, be construed as permitting or requiring the diversion of earmarked, pledged, or dedicated funds to purposes other than those for which they are earmarked, pledged, or dedicated. (Acts 1953, No. 404, p. 472, §5.20.)
AL Code § 45-8A-23.140 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 8A - Calhoun County Municipalities.|Article 2 - Anniston.|Part 4 - Goverrning Body.|Division 5 - Budget.|Section 45-8A-23.140 - Miscellaneous Revenues - Anticipated Surplus From Municipal Utility or Other Public Service Enterprise.

Section 45-8A-23.140Miscellaneous revenues - Anticipated surplus from municipal utility or other public service enterprise. The anticipated revenues and proposed expenditures of each utility or other public service enterprise owned, or operated, by the city, shall be stated in a separate section of the budget (each bearing the name of the utility); and as to each such utility, any anticipated surplus, if legally available for general purposes, shall be stated as an item of miscellaneous revenue in the budget and the budget proposal. (Acts 1953, No. 404, p. 472, §5.21.)
AL Code § 45-8A-23.141 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 8A - Calhoun County Municipalities.|Article 2 - Anniston.|Part 4 - Goverrning Body.|Division 5 - Budget.|Section 45-8A-23.141 - Miscellaneous Revenues - Measure of Estimates.

Section 45-8A-23.141Miscellaneous revenues - Measure of estimates. No miscellaneous revenue from any source shall be included as an anticipated revenue in the budget in an amount in excess of the average of the amount actually realized in cash from the same source in the next preceding fiscal year, and that actually realized in the first 10 months of the current fiscal year plus that to be received in the remaining two months of the year estimated as accurately as may be, unless the city manager shall determine that the facts clearly warrant the expectation that such excess amount will actually be realized in cash during the budget year and shall certify such determination in writing to the council. (Acts 1953, No. 404, p. 472, §5.22.)
AL Code § 45-8A-23.142 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 8A - Calhoun County Municipalities.|Article 2 - Anniston.|Part 4 - Goverrning Body.|Division 5 - Budget.|Section 45-8A-23.142 - Miscellaneous Revenues - Receipts From Special Assessments.

Section 45-8A-23.142Miscellaneous revenues - Receipts from special assessments. In the budget and budget proposal revenues from the collection of special assessments on property specially benefited shall not be stated in an amount which is in excess of the amount of the receipts so derived which it is estimated will be held in cash on the first day of the budget year. (Acts 1953, No. 404, p. 472, §5.23.)
AL Code § 45-8A-23.143 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 8A - Calhoun County Municipalities.|Article 2 - Anniston.|Part 4 - Goverrning Body.|Division 5 - Budget.|Section 45-8A-23.143 - Miscellaneous Revenues - New Sources.

Section 45-8A-23.143Miscellaneous revenues - New sources. No revenue from a new source not stated in the budget for the current budget year shall be included in the budget unless the city manager shall determine that the facts clearly warrant the expectation that such revenue will be actually realized in cash during the budget year in the amount stated and shall certify such determination in writing to the council. If the new revenue is to be received from the state, the anticipated amount shall not exceed the amount which the proper officer of the state shall declare in writing to be the amount which may reasonably be anticipated in the budget year. (Acts 1953, No. 404, p. 472, §5.24.)
AL Code § 45-8A-23.144 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 8A - Calhoun County Municipalities.|Article 2 - Anniston.|Part 4 - Goverrning Body.|Division 5 - Budget.|Section 45-8A-23.144 - Proposed Expenditures - Generally.

Section 45-8A-23.144Proposed expenditures - Generally. In the budget and budget proposal the proposed expenditures shall be itemized in such form and to such extent as shall be provided by law, and in the absence of such provision, by regulations established by ordinance. Separate provision shall be included in the budget and budget proposal for at least: (a) Interest, amortization, and redemption charges on the public debt for which the faith and credit of the city is pledged; (b) Other statutory expenditures; (c) The payment of all judgments; (d) The amount by which the total receipts of miscellaneous revenues in the last completed fiscal year failed to equal the total of the budget estimated of receipts from miscellaneous revenues in that year; (e) An amount equal to the aggregate of all taxes levied for the third fiscal year prior to the budget year which are delinquent and outstanding on the sixtieth day prior to the beginning of the budget year, except to the extent the city may have made provision therefor by reserving the full amount of said delinquent taxes; (f) An amount equal to the aggregate of all cancellation, remissions, abatements, and refunds of taxes, that have been made during the current fiscal year; (g) An amount equal to the aggregate of all special revenue notes which it is estimated will be outstanding at the end of the current year in anticipation of the collection of revenues other than the property tax; (h) An amount equal to the aggregate of all emergency notes which it is estimated will be outstanding at the end of the current year; (i) If the city is required to make up the deficit arising from the operations of utility or other public service enterprises, an amount equal to the deficit from such operations during the last completed fiscal year, separately stated for each utility or other public service enterprise which appears in a separate section of the budget; (j) Administration, operation, and maintenance of each office, department, board, or agency of the city itemized by character and object of expenditure; (k) Contingent expense in an amount not more than three per centum of the total amount stated pursuant to subsection (j) of this section; (l) Expenditures proposed for capital projects, including provisions for down payments on capital projects, as required by Section 45-8A-23.146. (Acts 1953, No. 404, p. 472, §5.25.)
AL Code § 45-8A-23.145 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 8A - Calhoun County Municipalities.|Article 2 - Anniston.|Part 4 - Goverrning Body.|Division 5 - Budget.|Section 45-8A-23.145 - Proposed Expenditures - Comparison With Other Years.

Section 45-8A-23.145Proposed expenditures - Comparison with other years. In the budget and budget proposal in parallel columns opposite the several items of proposed expenditures, there shall be placed the amount of each such item in the budget of the last completed fiscal year, the amount of such items actually expended during such year, the amount of each such item in the budget of the current year and the amount actually expended to the time of preparing the budget proposal plus the expenditures for the remainder of the current fiscal year estimated as accurately as may be. (Acts 1953, No. 404, p. 472, §5.26.)