Mississippi Code
Flooding Disaster of 1979
§ 27-107-171. Allocations to agencies with depleted funds; Administrator of certain emergency appropriations

The Commission of Budget and Accounting, being the disaster emergency funding board established in Section 43-41-5, is hereby made the sole administrator of any appropriation enacted during the first extraordinary session of 1979 to implement the provisions of Sections 27-107-169 through 27-107-189. It is authorized to utilize any of its general powers provided by Chapter 496, Laws of 1962, as amended, appearing as Sections 27-103-1 through 27-103-75, Mississippi Code of 1972, in making findings of fact and determinations as to the extent and degree of damages, destruction or loss to the public properties, and the dollar value thereof, the reasonable expectation of loss of present and future revenues, and all appropriate economic factors affecting the ability of state agencies to provide necessary public functions. It shall take into consideration programs and other relevant facts and fiscal data in determining the amount of allocations to state agencies which have suffered publicly owned property loss as a direct result of the excessive rains and floods in the spring of 1979.
Notwithstanding the provisions of any appropriation act which restricts the increase in any one (1) object of expenditure in excess of fifteen percent (15%), the commission of budget and accounting is hereby authorized to approve increases in any amounts when such funds are necessary to make expenditures authorized by Sections 27-107-169 through 27-107-189, provided that other objects are reduced in an amount to compensate for such increases.
No allocation authorized under the provisions of Sections 27-107-169 through 27-107-189 shall be made to any agency which has other funds in its budget which could be utilized for these purposes except for the fifteen percent (15%) category transfer limitation provided in their appropriation bill.

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