(a) Any supplementary agreement entered into pursuant to Article VI of the Southern States Energy Compact, § 15-10-401, and requiring the expenditure of funds or the assumption of an obligation to expend funds shall not become effective as to this state prior to the making of an appropriation for it by the General Assembly.
(b) Provided, that with respect to the payment of this state's share of the budget of expenditures for the maintenance of the Southern States Energy Board as provided in Article III(b) of the Southern States Energy Compact, § 15-10-401, the Governor, in the absence of a specific legislative appropriation for the purpose, may use such appropriations as are made available to him or her for emergency expenditures.
Structure Arkansas Code
Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development
Subtitle 1 - Development Of Economic And Natural Resources Generally
Chapter 10 - Energy Conservation And Development
Subchapter 4 - Southern States Energy Compact
§ 15-10-401. Enactment of compact into law
§ 15-10-402. Arkansas board members
§ 15-10-403. Supplementary agreements — Appropriations
§ 15-10-404. Officers, departments, agencies, and institutions authorized to cooperate with board