Federal · Title 48 — Territories and Insular Possessions
48 U.S.C. § 1423j: Authorization of appropriations
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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. 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. All appropriations made prior to August 1, 1950 shall be available to the government of Guam.
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