§ 375. Allotments of appropriations. 1. Where the board of supervisors
of a county, by action taken pursuant to section three hundred
seventy-six, provides that this section shall apply to such county, the
head of each administrative unit shall submit to the budget officer, at
the time specified by him, a work program for the ensuing fiscal year,
which program shall include all appropriations for operation and
maintenance and purchase of equipment and shall show the requested
allotments of such appropriations for such administrative unit by
quarterly periods for the entire fiscal year. The budget officer shall
review the requested allotments in the light of the work program of the
administrative unit and may revise, alter, or change the requested
allotments before approving the same. The aggregate of the allotments
for any administrative unit shall not exceed the amount appropriated for
such administrative unit for the fiscal year. A copy of the allotments
as finally approved by the budget officer shall be filed with the chief
fiscal officer and expenditures shall be made only in accordance with
such approved allotments as revised. Approved allotments may be revised
during the fiscal year by the budget officer in the same manner as the
original allotment was made.

2. If, at any time during the fiscal year the budget officer shall
ascertain that the available revenues, including the proceeds of the tax
on real estate, for such year will be less than the total
appropriations, he shall reconsider the work programs and allotments of
the several administrative units and make a revision thereof, so as to
prevent the making of expenditures in excess of the amounts available
therefor.