If additional or supplemental needs exist in any department or appropriation account of a county, school board of education or municipal government as to any item or items of appropriation therefor, that are immediately urgent, and there exists in any other appropriation account or department of the government unexpended and unencumbered balances of appropriations of less immediately urgent need, the duly-constituted head of such department or officer in charge of an account needing additional or supplementalappropriations, shall make a written request for transfer of appropriation balance or any portion thereof to the governing body. The written request for transfer shall set forth such additional or supplemental needs and the occasion for such needs, together with detail of account items and the amount of each item proposed to be canceled, and the written consent of the department head or officer in charge of the account from which the appropriation or any portion thereof is to be canceled. The approval of the request for transfer by the governing body, without other formality, shall effect cancellation of appropriations in the items and amounts less urgently needed and increase in like total sum to the appropriation accounts or department by items and amounts for such immediately urgent needs. The clerk of the governing body shall notify in writing the clerk of the county excise board of the changes and shall also notify the treasurer and the head of each department affected of the action, and they shall adjust their accounts accordingly. In a municipality, or school board of education, the actions and consent of the respective department heads or officers provided in this section may be performed by the governing body or by persons designated by the governing body.

Added by Laws 1951, p. 190, § 1, emerg. eff. May 15, 1951. Amended by Laws 1980, c. 226, § 5, emerg. eff. May 27, 1980.