RCW 35A.33.125
Limitation on expenditures—Void.
Liabilities incurred by any officer or employee of the city in excess of any budget appropriations shall not be a liability of the city. The clerk shall issue no warrant and the city council or other authorized person shall approve no claim for an expenditure in excess of the total amount appropriated for any individual fund, except upon an order of a court of competent jurisdiction or for emergencies as provided in this chapter.
[ 1969 ex.s. c 81 § 4; 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.33.125.]
NOTES:
Effective date—1969 ex.s. c 81: See note following RCW 35A.13.035.
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code
Chapter 35A.33 - Budgets in Code Cities.
35A.33.020 - Applicability of chapter.
35A.33.030 - Budget estimates.
35A.33.040 - Classification and segregation of budget estimates.
35A.33.050 - Proposed preliminary budget.
35A.33.052 - Preliminary budget.
35A.33.055 - Budget message—Preliminary hearings.
35A.33.060 - Budget—Notice of hearing on final.
35A.33.080 - Emergency expenditures—Nondebatable emergencies.
35A.33.090 - Emergency expenditures—Other emergencies—Hearing.
35A.33.100 - Emergency expenditures—Warrants—Payments.
35A.33.102 - Registered warrants—Appropriations.
35A.33.105 - Adjustment of wages, etc., of employees permissible budget notwithstanding.
35A.33.110 - Forms—Accounting—Supervision by state.
35A.33.120 - Funds—Limitations on expenditures—Transfers and adjustments.
35A.33.125 - Limitation on expenditures—Void.
35A.33.130 - Funds received from sales of bonds and warrants—Expenditures program—Federal tax law.
35A.33.135 - Levy for ad valorem tax.
35A.33.140 - Funds—Quarterly report of status.
35A.33.145 - Contingency fund—Creation.
35A.33.146 - Contingency fund—Withdrawals.