9-4-5113. Certification of funds to meet obligations.
No department or officer under such department shall enter into any contract, agreement, or obligation, involving the expenditure of money, unless the commissioner of finance and administration shall first certify that there is a balance in the appropriation from which such obligation is required to be paid, that is not otherwise encumbered to pay obligations previously incurred.
[Acts 1923, ch. 7, § 17; Code 1932, § 279; C. Supp. 1950, § 255.22; impl. am. Acts 1959, ch. 9, § 3; impl. am. Acts 1961, ch. 97, § 3; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 9-611; T.C.A. § 9-6-113.]