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 Oklahoma Statutes (Last Updated: September 18, 2014)
 Title 11. CITIES AND TOWNS

  § 11-17-204. Definitions.  

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  • As used in this act, except as provided in Section 4 of this act:

    1.  "Account" means an entity for recording specific revenues or expenditures, or for grouping related or similar classes of revenues and expenditures and recording them within a fund or department;

    2.  “Appropriated fund balance” means any fund balance appropriated for a fund for the budget year;

    3.  "Appropriation" means an authorization to expend or encumber revenues and fund balance of a fund;

    4.  "Budget" means a plan of financial operations for a fiscal year, including an estimate of proposed expenditures for given purposes and the proposed means for financing them;

    5.  "Budget summary" means a tabular listing of revenues by source and expenditures by fund and by department within each fund for the budget year;

    6.  "Budget year" means the fiscal year for which a budget is prepared or being prepared;

    7.  "Chief executive officer" means the mayor of an aldermanic city or a strong-mayor-council city, the mayor of a town, or the city manager or chief administrative officer as it may be defined by applicable law, charter or ordinance;

    8.  "Current year" means the year in which the budget is prepared and adopted, or the fiscal year immediately preceding the budget year;

    9.  "Deficit" means the excess of a fund's current liabilities and encumbrances over its current financial assets as reflected by its books of account;

    10.  "Department" means a functional unit within a fund which carries on a specific activity, such as a fire department or a police department within a general fund;

    11.  "Estimated revenue" means the amount of revenues estimated to be received during the budget year in each fund for which a budget is prepared;

    12.  "Fiscal year" means the annual period for reporting fiscal operations which begins and ends on dates as the Legislature provides or as provided by law;

    13.  "Fund" means an independent fiscal and accounting entity with a self-balancing set of accounts to record cash and other financial resources, together with all liabilities, which are segregated for the purpose of carrying on specific activities or attaining certain objectives;

    14.  "Fund balance" means the excess of a fund's current financial assets over its current liabilities and encumbrances, as reflected by its books of account;

    15.  "Governing body" means the city council of a city, the board of trustees of a town, or the legislative body of a municipality as it may be defined by applicable law or charter provision;

    16.  "Immediate prior fiscal year" means the year preceding the current year;

    17.  "Levy" means to impose ad valorem taxes or the total amount of ad valorem taxes for a purpose or entity;

    18.  "Operating reserve" means that portion of the fund balance which has not been appropriated in a budget year; and

    19.  "Municipality" means any incorporated city or town.

Added by Laws 1979, c. 111, § 4.  Amended by Laws 1980, c. 226, § 2, emerg. eff. May 27, 1980; Laws 1995, c. 166, § 1, emerg. eff. May 4, 1995; Laws 2002, c. 98, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2002; Laws 2006, c. 314, § 2, eff. July 1, 2006.