7-6-2324. Limitations on appropriations after budget adopted -- exception. (1) The estimates of expenditures, itemized and classified as required in 7-6-2313 and 7-6-2314 and as finally fixed and adopted and as may be amended as provided in 7-6-2320 by the board of county commissioners, constitutes the appropriations for the county for the fiscal year intended to be covered by the estimates.
     (2) Except as provided in 3-5-404, 7-6-2325, and 7-31-2101, the county commissioners and every other county official, including judges of the district court, is limited in the making of expenditures or incurring of liabilities to the amount of the detailed appropriations and classifications, respectively.
     (3) This section does not apply to a county that has adopted the alternative accounting method provided for in Title 7, chapter 6, part 6.

     History: En. Sec. 5, Ch. 148, L. 1929; re-en. Sec. 4613.5, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 16-1906(part); amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 275, L. 1979; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 702, L. 1983; amd. Sec. 27, Ch. 430, L. 1995.