(1) The estimates of revenues and appropriations as finally fixed and adopted in detail by the council and the salary schedule for elected officials filed pursuant to chapter 2.105 SCC shall constitute the budget for the ensuing year or fiscal biennium, subject to the limitations contained in the charter and county code; and the council and every other county official shall be limited in the making of expenditures or the incurring of liabilities to the amount of such detailed appropriations, provided, that budget transfers, budget revisions, emergency and supplemental appropriations, and reallocations within appropriation units may be made as provided by this chapter or as otherwise provided by law.

(2) A supplemental appropriation ordinance may appropriate unanticipated federal or state funds, or unanticipated funds from any local revenue source, available to the county. The clerk of the council shall publish in the official county newspaper notice of the time and date of the meeting at which the ordinance may be adopted, which shall state the amount of the appropriation, at least once each week for two consecutive weeks prior to the meeting.

(3) An appropriation is subject to lapse as set out in county charter section 6.100. (Added by Ord. 86-033, Apr. 23, 1986; Amended by Ord. 97-037 § 11, May 21, 1997, Eff date June 6, 1997; Amended by Ord. 00-009, Apr. 12, 2000, Eff date Apr. 27, 2000; Amended by Amended Ord. 07-015, Mar. 21, 2007, Eff date Apr. 7, 2007; Amended by Ord. 07-053, June 27, 2007, Eff date Jan. 1, 2008).