Title 41

There shall be a Department of Finance, which shall be an executive and administrative department and which shall have general supervision of all matters pertaining to the finances and real property of the state and the departments, boards, bureaus, commissions, agencies, offices…

It shall be the duty of the Department of Finance: (1) To manage, supervise, and control all matters pertaining to the fiscal affairs and fiscal procedure of the state, except such as may, by the constitution or statute, be specifically required to be performed by the State Audit…

(a) The Alabama Department of Finance shall produce monthly financial reports. It is the intent of the Legislature that the monthly reports shall increase the transparency of state finances and, when conditions emerge that make budget proration likely, provide advance notice to t…

All appropriations heretofore or hereafter made for the purchase, acquisition or use of furniture, fixtures, supplies, materials, equipment, or other personal property, appropriations for printing and binding and the distribution of printed matter, appropriations for the maintena…

The Director of Finance shall, subject to the provisions of the Merit System, have the right to appoint any employee in the department. All employees and officers of the Department of Finance, including the chiefs of divisions, except as otherwise provided for in this chapter, sh…

Before entering upon the discharge of their duties, the Comptroller, the Budget Officer, the Purchasing Agent, the chief of the division of service, the chief of the division of local finance, and the chief of any other division established by the Director of Finance shall take t…

Before entering upon the duties of their respective offices, the Comptroller, the Purchasing Agent, the chief of the division of service, the chief of the division of finance, the chief of any other division established by the Director of Finance and such other officers or employ…

(a) With respect to all state educational or eleemosynary institutions which are governed by a board of trustees or other similar governing body, the Department of Finance shall have the following powers and duties only: (1) To make all budget allotments to such institutions. (2)…

Nothing in this chapter shall be deemed to authorize or require the allotment, handling or expenditure of any moneys received as grants from the federal Department of Health, Education and Welfare or any other agency of the federal government, or the use or disposition of any pro…

The Department of Finance shall be headed by, and shall be under the direction, supervision, and control of, an officer who shall be known and designated as the Director of Finance. The Director of Finance shall be the chief financial officer of the state and the advisor of the G…

Before entering the duties of his or her office, the Director of Finance shall execute to the State of Alabama a bond, to be approved by the Governor, in an amount to be fixed by the Governor, but not less than $150,000.00, for the faithful performance of his or her duties. (Acts…

All functions and duties of the Department of Finance shall be exercised by the Director of Finance, acting by and through such administrative divisions or such officers as he or she may designate. He or she shall have all power and authority necessary or convenient to carry out …

(a) All surplus property owned by the state to be disposed of by sale at auction by the Finance Department shall first be screened by the Forestry Commission to determine if such property may be of use by volunteer fire departments for specific use in fire suppression activities.…

(a) This section shall apply to voluntary nonprofit ambulance services and voluntary nonprofit rescue squads which are operated as a public service for the benefit of the citizens of this state. It is declared that said ambulance services and rescue squads are quasi-public entiti…

The Director of Finance must assign rooms in the Capitol to the Secretary of State, Auditor, Treasurer, the Department of Revenue, and such other officers as may be designated by law, or which, in the discretion of the Governor, should have such offices, and, in the absence of an…

The Director of Finance shall, with the approval of the Governor, establish and promulgate rules and regulations with respect to the manner of performance of all functions and duties of the Department of Finance, the execution of the business of the department and its relations t…

The Director of Finance and any authorized officer or employee of the Department of Finance shall, in the performance of his or her official duties, for the purpose of examination, have access to, and the right to copy from, any book, record, account, document, receipt, or paper …

With the approval of the Governor, the Director of Finance may create and establish such additional divisions as may be determined to be necessary or convenient in the efficient and expeditious performance of the functions and duties of the Department of Finance and assign functi…

(a) The Cash Management Improvement Act of 1990, Public Law 101-453, October 24, 1990, (CMIA), imposes requirements for the timely transfer of funds between a federal agency and a state, and for the exchange of interest where transfers are not made in a timely fashion. The Direct…

(a) If any act of the Legislature provides that the Director of Finance is designated as a member of a multi-member body, the director may designate any individual to serve in his or her place. (b) The director’s designee under subsection (a) shall serve at the pleasure of the di…

There shall be in the Department of Finance the Division of Control and Accounts. The functions and duties of the Division of Control and Accounts shall be as follows: (1) To keep all books, records and accounts relating to the finances of the state government, including the budg…

The division of control and accounts shall be headed by and be under the direction, supervision and control of an officer who shall be designated the Comptroller. The Comptroller shall be appointed by the Director of Finance, with the approval of the Governor. (Acts 1939, No. 112…

The Comptroller has no authority in any civil action or proceeding commenced or directed by him or her, or in any other case, unless such authority is expressly given, to receive any of the state revenue. (Code 1852, §368; Code 1867, §420; Code 1876, §97; Code 1886, §108; Code 18…

The Comptroller must not give any public defaulter any warrant for moneys due him or her from the state, except the balance which is due after the application of the amount due from the state to the extinguishment of the debt, interest, and damages, if any are given by law, due f…

All accounts against the state must be accurately and fully itemized. (Code 1852, §369; Code 1867, §421; Code 1876, §98; Code 1886, §109; Code 1896, §2008; Code 1907, §612; Code 1923, §819; Code 1940, T. 55, §84; Acts 1969, No. 272, p. 603.)

On all vouchers or accounts for payment of state funds by warrant of the state Comptroller which, by general or special law, require the approval of the Governor, such approval may be indicated thereon by method of certification by the director or executive officer duly designate…

No money shall be paid out of any contingent fund, except upon account stated, setting forth the items upon which payment is claimed, signed by the proper person, with such authentication as the Governor may require of the correctness of the same. (Code 1867, §416; Code 1876, §94…

All officers and employees who travel at the expense of the state or any of its departments, agencies, boards, bureaus, or commissions shall file with the Comptroller an itemized statement of all expenses incurred, including those for transportation, in connection with such trave…

The Comptroller must issue duplicate warrants upon the Treasury whenever he is satisfied that the original warrant has been destroyed or lost. The party holding the duplicate shall have the same right as if he or she held the original, and the Treasurer is authorized to pay the s…

Every warrant authorized to be drawn upon the State Treasury by the state Comptroller shall be deemed to have been duly executed if it is signed by the Comptroller himself or herself or if it bears a facsimile of the Comptroller’s signature placed thereon by the Comptroller or a …

(a) Any warrant heretofore or hereafter drawn by the state Comptroller on any fund in the State Treasury which is outstanding and unpaid one year from the date of issue shall be void and payment of the warrant shall be stopped by the State Treasurer. (b) Upon the expiration of th…

The Comptroller has authority to require information on oath, to be administered by him or her, from any person, touching any claim or account he or she is required to audit. (Code 1852, §366; Code 1867, §418; Code 1876, §93; Code 1886, §104; Code 1896, §2003; Code 1907, §607; Co…

In cases where any person, firm, or corporation has purchased or may hereafter purchase from the state, or of its officers acting under authority or under color of authority purporting to be conferred by an act or resolution of the Legislature of this state, bonds or securities i…

Any person, firm, or corporation entitled to the benefit of Section 41-4-62 and desiring to obtain relief hereunder may file an application with the Comptroller of the state, stating the facts upon which relief is sought, verified by his or her affidavit or that of a duly authori…

The state Comptroller is authorized to transfer to the State General Fund all sums carried in special funds on the books and daily balance sheets of the Comptroller but which have become inactive because all claims against them have been paid or when requests for payments from su…

(a) In this section, state entity shall mean, the State of Alabama, a political subdivision, an agency, board, commission, or department of the state, the State Board of Education, a public college or trade school, or a public university, except that the term shall not mean a cou…

ficer shall establish and maintain and post on the state’s website a statewide database of each request for a proposal for a public contract by the State of Alabama, any agency, board, commission, or department of the state which receives state or federally appropriated funds, th…

There shall be in the Department of Finance a division of the budget. The functions and duties of the division of the budget shall be as follows: (1) To prepare and administer the budget, and direct the execution thereof. (2) To prepare a detailed tentative budget for every depar…

(a) The division of the budget shall be headed by and under the direction, supervision and control of an officer who shall be designated the Budget Officer. The Budget Officer may be employed from within or without the classified service; such Budget Officer shall be appointed by…

Within five days after the convening of each regular business session of the Legislature, the Governor shall transmit to the Legislature a document to be known as a budget, setting forth his or her financial program for each of the fiscal years which will have begun before the ne…

The budget shall consist of three parts, the nature and contents of which shall be as follows: (1) Part I shall consist of the Governor’s budget message, in which he or she shall set forth: a. His or her program for meeting all the expenditure needs of the government for each of …

On or before the first day of the third month next preceding each regular business session of the Legislature, each department, board, bureau, commission, agency, office, and institution of the state shall transmit to the Department of Finance, on blanks to be furnished it, estim…

On or before the first day of the third month next preceding each regular business session of the Legislature, the Department of Finance shall prepare an estimate of the total income of the government for each budget year, in which the several items of income shall be listed and …

Upon the receipt of the estimates of expenditure requirements called for by Section 41-4-84 and the preparation of the estimates of income called for by Section 41-4-85, and not later than the first day of the second month preceding each regular business session of the Legislatur…

The Governor shall, upon receipt by him or her of the tentative budget provided for by Section 41-4-86, make provision for public hearings thereon not later than two weeks prior to the convening of the next ensuing regular business session of the Legislature. To any such public h…

After such public hearings, the Governor shall proceed to the formulation of the budget provided for in Sections 41-4-82 and 41-4-83. In doing so, he shall give such weight to the estimates of income prepared by the Department of Finance, to the estimates of expenditure requireme…