Copies, distribution of. Examination of bids, etc. chairman of the budget commission, to transmit to each branch of the legislature the budget herein provided accompanied by such explanations and recommendations relative thereto as he may deem necessary and advisable. A sufficient number of copies of the budget shall be printed to supply the press, a copy to each member of the legislature, a copy to the executive officer of each State department, a copy to each State institution, board and commission, also two hundred copies for distribution by the budget commission. SEC. 7. Said budget commission shall have the authority at any time, to examine all bids, contracts, plans, specifications, blue prints, records, invoices, books, accounts and correspondence relating in any way to establishing, enlarging, altering, maintaining or operating any of the several State institutions, departments, boards, commissions and offices, and may at any time by its members or its agents or employes enter in and upon, and examine, any building or structure Investigation used or to be used by any State institution, department, of departments, etc. Officers to produce etc. board, commission or office. Said commission may investigate the general affairs of the several State institutions, departments, boards, commissions and offices at any time it may deem necessary for ascertaining facts essential to a proper administration of this act, and for the purpose of making recommendations to the legislature relating to the degree of efficiency and economy in which they are being conducted. Upon demand of the budget commission, it shall be books, papers, the duty of any and all officers of this State to produce, for examination, the books and papers of their respective offices, departments and institutions, answer all questions relating thereto and to render every possible assistance to the commission in meeting the requirements of this section. In connection with such examinations, the budget commission, or any member thereof, may compel attendance and testimony of witnesses, administer oaths, and examine such persons as deemed necessary and compel the production of books and Enforcement papers. The orders and subpoenas issued by said commission, or member thereof, in pursuance of the authority in them vested by provisions of this section, may be enforced upon the application of said commission to any circuit court by proceedings in contempt therein, as provided by law. Witnesses, etc. of subpoenas. Who subject to provisions. SEC. 8. All departments, institutions, boards, commissions and offices of the State government shall hereafter be subject to the provisions of this act and, except as hereinafter provided, shall each be wholly supported and maintained by specific appropriations by the legislature, following the submission to the legislature of the budget, herein provided, containing the recommendations of the budget comMoneys, how mission relative thereto. All income of such departments, institutions, boards, commissions or offices shall by them be turned into the State treasury in the manner provided by law, and such moneys shall not be paid out of the handled. Proviso, State Game, Fish and Forest Fire Commispartment. sioner's de proviso. State treasury except in pursuance of specific appropriations Unexpended be subject to transfer. balances to Proviso, automobile license fees. sity and SEC. 9. All departments, institutions, boards, commis- State universions, and offices of the State government except the Univer- agricultural sity of Michigan and the Michigan Agricultural College, shall college. hereafter be wholly financed and maintained by specific appropriations by the legislature, and except that the State Normal College shall continue to receive such income as it may derive from its interest fund. Except as herein otherwise provided, no money shall be paid out of the State treasury to any such State department, institution, board, commission, office, or officer, except it be in pursuance of specific appropriations made by law, and for the purposes for which the appropriations were made: Provided, That no money shall be drawn Proviso, no from the State treasury in excess of the amount appropriated for each activity of the State government: Provided further, Further That nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent the allowance and payment of emergency claims out of any claims. fund or funds provided therefor, nor to prevent any institution, department, board or commission from accepting gifts, grants, bequests or any assistance whatsoever from private sources or from the United States government, in the furtherance of the purposes of such institution, department, board or commission. overdrafts. emergency SEC. 10. Except as hereinafter provided, all revenue of Revenues, disposition of. the State government, from whatever source derived, shall be turned into the State treasury by the State department, institution, board, commission or officer, which makes collection or receives such revenue, on or before the first day of each Auditor General may refuse to draw warrant, when. Proviso, check vouchers. How funds to be used. Proviso, petty cash accounts. month following its collection or receipt. No funds shall be placed to the credit of any State institution in the State treasury unless specifically authorized by law, and then only upon warrant of the Auditor General and for the purpose, or purposes, named in the appropriation or governing statute. The Auditor General may refuse to draw his warrant upon the State treasury for any funds requested by any State department, institution, board, commission or office unless satisfactory showing shall be made that the funds requested are actually needed at the time and in the amount named in such request: Provided, That such funds as shall be needed, from time to time, by each State institution shall be credited to its appropriation account in the State treasury upon warrant of the Auditor General, and the amount so credited shall only be paid out of the State treasury upon check-vouchers signed by the executive officer of the institution, the form of which check-voucher shall be prescribed by the Auditor General. All such funds shall be used by said institutions strictly for the purpose, or purposes, named in the appropriation act, or acts, and in accordance with the requirements of the general accounting laws of the State: Provided further, That each State institution shall be permitted to establish and maintain a petty cash account in an amount which the Auditor General shall deem necessary and expedient, but in no case shall such account exceed, at any time, the sum of five hundred dollars: Provided, That the provisions of this section shall not apply to or affect such revenue as may be derived by the University of Michigan and the Michigan Agricultural College from sources other than specific appropriaFurther pro- tions: Provided further, That nothing in this act contained shall be construed to impair the continued existence of any revolving fund now existing for the use of any State institution engaged in manufacturing on State account, and the State Treasurer shall keep separate account of all such funds, and the same shall be paid out of the State treasury in accordance with the requirements of this section. Any profit accruing to any institution from the use of any revolving fund shall be placed to the credit of the fund. The board of control of every State institution conducting industrial operations on State account shall on July first, nineteen hundred nineteen, and annually thereafter make a full and complete inventory and appraisal of all property used in its industrial operations and file a copy thereof with the budget commission: Provided further, That the State Board of Education may in its discretion collect from each student enrolled in any of the normal schools or in the State Normal College a reasonable fee to be placed in a special fund and to be expended under the direction of said board for the fostering of athletics, oratory, debating and similar student activities, in the institution where collected, and for the giving of student lecture courses and musical courses. Further proviso. viso, revolving funds. Inventory. Proviso, special fund. SEC. 11. All emergency claims against the State shall be Emergency presented to the Board of State Auditors for investigation claims. and consideration, and all such claims allowed by said board, together with reasons for their allowance, shall be certified in writing by said board to the Auditor General before he draws his warrant therefor. Such claims when allowed shall be paid by the State Treasurer out of any moneys in the treasury that may be appropriated therefor. SEC. 12. All claims against the State for printing, binding, stationery and supplies furnished by any person, firm or corporation under and by virtue of any contract entered into with the Board of State Auditors, or by the Board of State Auditors, to any State department, board, commission or officer shall, before any warrant is drawn or issued therefor, be presented to, and audited and allowed by, said Board of State Auditors. Claims for printing, binding, etc. expenses All other claims against the State, before any warrant in Other claims. payment thereof is drawn or issued, shall be presented to and audited and approved by either said Board of State Auditors or the Auditor General, in accordance with the statutes in such case made and provided, or that may be hereafter enacted: Provided, however, That all claims for printing, Proviso, supplies, and all other expenses incurred by the legislature, incurred by or either house thereof, when in session, shall, if presented legislature. during the session, be audited and approved by the president of the senate, or by the speaker of the house of representatives, as the case may be, or by both said officers if the expense is jointly authorized, and if such claims are incurred or presented when the legislature is not in session, they shall be audited and approved by the secretary of the senate, or the clerk of the house of representatives, as the case may be, or by both officers if the expense is jointly authorized, and shall be paid by the State Treasurer. SEC. 13. The Governor shall have the power, and he is Removal hereby directed upon a finding of guilt, to remove from office from office. the executive officer of the State department, the members of any State board or commission, or the incumbent of any other office of the State government, who refuses or wilfully neglects to comply with any of the requirements of this act. It shall be the duty of the Budget Director to report to the Report of Governor each such refusal or neglect and thereupon the refusal or Governor, before taking final action thereon, shall summon neglect. the person, or persons, complained against to make answer why he, or they, should not be removed from office. cases of SEC. 14. The Board of State Auditors are hereby directed offices. tion. SEC. 15. For the purpose of meeting the expense of carry- Appropriaing out the provisions of this act, there is hereby appropriated for the use of said State Budget Commission the sum of Tax levy. Acts and sections repealed. eighteen thousand dollars, eight thousand dollars of which amount the Auditor General shall incorporate in the State tax for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred twenty, and ten thousand dollars of which shall be incorporated in the State tax for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred twenty-one. SEC. 16. Sections six and seven of act number two hundred six of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred eighty-one being sections one thousand nine hundred forty-one and one thousand nine hundred forty-two of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, in so far as said sections relate to the powers and duties of the State Board of Corrections and Charities, and to the making of reports to said board by certain State institutions; and all other acts or parts of acts contravening the provisions of this act, including the provisions of all acts making specified periodical (continuing) appropriations, except act number one hundred seven of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred fifteen, and act number two hundred four of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred thirteen, as amended by act number one hundred sixty-seven of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred fifteen relating, respectively, to appropriations for the Western State Normal School and Michigan State Normal College for buildings and special. purposes, and act number thirty-two of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred seventy-three, as amended by act number three hundred three of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seven, and act number two hundred thirty-two of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred one, as amended by act number one hundred fourteen of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred fifteen, relating, respectively to the mill tax for the support of the University of Michigan and the Michigan Agricultural College, and act number ninety-seven of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, authorizing a war loan, and act number two hundred forty-one of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seventeen authorizing the erection, construction and equipment of a State office building in the City of Lansing, are hereby repealed. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. |