17-7-121. Preliminary budget preparation and submission to governor and governor-elect. (1) Upon receipt of the completed forms and other available data and information, the budget director shall examine the same for the purpose of determining the necessity of the disbursements and funds requested and shall, on or before December 15 in the year preceding the convening of the legislature, submit in writing to the governor and to the governor-elect, if one there be, a preliminary budget for the ensuing biennium containing the detailed information hereinafter required to be set forth in the budget to be submitted by the governor to the legislature.
     (2) If so requested by the governor-elect, the governor shall incorporate in the budget, as a separate section, such estimates, comments, and recommendations as the governor-elect may wish to make, and this section of the budget shall be transmitted to the legislature without change. It is the duty of the governor-elect in recommending changes to show a balance between proposed disbursements and anticipated receipts.

     History: En. Sec. 3, Ch. 158, L. 1959; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 282, L. 1974; R.C.M. 1947, 79-1014.