DATED: 1988

Section 1. LEGISLATIVE INTENT:
The Montgomery County Board of Supervisors hereby intends
to enact appropriate legislation to bring greater efficiency,
responsiveness and accountability to the County budetary process.
The Board of Supervisors intend s to empower the County Administrator with the authority to make certain budget transfers
under certain guidelines.

Section 2. COUNTY LAW:
The County Law of the State of New York stipulates that,
except as otherwise specified by a County governing body by the
adoption of .a local law or an ordinance, transfers of funds
between categories of appropriation expenditure items (objects
of expense) of personal services, equipment and contractual
services within the same appropriation account may be authorized
only by the adoption of a resolution by the governing body.

Section 3. CURRENT AUTHORITY:
The County Administrator of Montgomery County, who is also
Budget Officer, was previously authorized by the enactment of
Local Law No. 1 of 1978, as was amended by Local Law No. 2 of
1983 and Local Law No. 1 of 1984, with the authority to transfer
funds in the County budget in the same' appropriation account
within the separate categories of objects of expense of. (a.)
personal services; (b.) equipment; (c.) contractual expenses.

Section 4. NEW AUTHORITY:
The Board of Supervisors of the County of Montgomery hereby
empowers the Montgomery County Administrator with the author i ty
to approve the transfer of funds within the same appropriation
account of the County budget between the three categories of
(a.) persona 1 services; (b.) equipment; and (c.) contractual
expenses in separate amounts of .less than one thousand dollars
($1,000.00) without the necessity of the adoption of a resolution
of the Board of Supervisors, subject to the following conditions:
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A. That such authorization to transfer funds in this
manner be given on I y if the County department agency requesting
such transfer has given proper written documentation
to explain and justify the fund transfer request;
B. That the County Administrator submit a monthly report
to the Board of Supervisors which details and summarizes
all such financial transactions;
C. That such authority be applied only to the extent as
may be permissible by the County Law;
D. That such author i ty does not app I y to transfers from
the Contingent Account of any fund of the County Budget.

Section 5. SAVING CLAUSE:
If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section or part of this
Local Law shall be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment, decree or order shall not
affect, Impair or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be
confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph,
subdivision, section or part thereof directly involved In the
controversy in which such judgment, decree or order shall have
been rendered and the remainder of this Local Law shall not be
affected thereby and shall remain in full force and effect.

Section 6. EFFECTIVE DATE:
This Local Law shall take effect within 20 days upon it
being filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New
York.