Title 48 — Territories and Insular PossessionsRelease 119-73not60
§1423j Authorization of Appropriations
Title 48 › Chapter 8A— GUAM › Subchapter III— THE LEGISLATURE › § 1423j
Summary
The legislature must approve government spending unless Congress or this chapter says otherwise. If no new budget passes by the end of a fiscal year, the prior year’s amounts for each item keep applying. Spending approved before August 1, 1950 applies to Guam.
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Title 48, §1423j
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(a)Appropriations, except as otherwise provided in this chapter, and except such appropriations as shall be made from time to time by the Congress of the United States, shall be made by the legislature.
(b)If at the termination of any fiscal year the legislature shall have failed to pass appropriation bills providing for payments of the necessary current expenses of the government and meeting its legal obligations for the ensuing fiscal year, then the several sums appropriated in the last appropriation bills for the objects and purposes therein specified, so far as the same may be applicable, shall be deemed to be reappropriated, item by item.
(c)All appropriations made prior to August 1, 1950 shall be available to the government of Guam.
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48 U.S.C. § 1423j
Title 48 — Territories and Insular Possessions
Last Updated
Apr 5, 2026
Release point: 119-73not60