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Governor Richard D. Lamm Office of the Governor 136 State Capitol Building Denver, Colorado 80203

Dear Governor Lamm:

QUESTION PRESENTED AND CONCLUSION

This is in response to your request of September 9, 1975 as to whether authority exists to permit the Governor to reduce expenditures below the levels authorized?

It is my opinion that authority exists to permit the Governor to reduce expenditures below the levels authorized when you have determined that appropriations will exceed revenue for a fiscal year.

ANALYSIS

Art. X, § 16 of the Colorado Constitution provides that no appropriation shall be…