ment, office and institution (including the elective officers in the executive and judicial departments and including the University of Illinois) shall, not later than the first day of November, file in the office of the director of finance its estimates of receipts and expenditures for the succeeding biennium. Such estimates shall be accompanied by a statement in writing giving facts and explanation of reasons for each item of expenditure requested. The director of finance may, in his discretion, make further inquiries and investigations as to any item dersired [desired]. He may approve, disapprove or alter the estimates. He shall, on or before the first day of January preceding the convening of the General Assembly, submit to the Governor in writing his estimates of revenues and appropriations for the next succeeding biennium. § 38. The Governor shall as soon as possible and not later than four weeks after the organization of the General Assembly submit a State budget, embracing therein the amounts recommended by him to be appropriated to the respective departments, offices, and institutions, and for all other public purposes, the estimated revenues from taxation, the estimated revenues from sources other than taxation, and an estimate of the amount required to be raised by taxation. Together with such budget, the Governor shall transmit the estimates of receipts and expenditures, as received by the director of finance, of the elective officers in the executive and judicial departments and of the University of Illinois. § 39. Each department shall, before an appropriation to such department becomes available for expenditure, prepare and submit to the department of finance an estimate of the amount required for each activity to be carried on, and accounts shall be kept and reports rendered showing the expenditures for each such purpose. THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH. § 55. The department of public health shall have power: 1. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the State Board of Health, its secretary and executive officer, other officers and employees, except the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the State Board of Health under the Act to regulate the practice of medicine and the Act to regulate the practice of embalming; 2. To have the general supervision of the interests of the health and lives of the people of the State; 3. To act in advisory capacity relative to public water supplies, water purification works, sewerage system, and sewage treatment works, and to exercise supervision over nuisances growing out of the operation of such water and sewage works, and to make, promulgate and enforce rules and regulations relating to such nuisances; 4. To make such sanitary investigations as it may, from time to time, deem necessary for the preservation and improvement of public health; 5. To make examinations into nuisances and questions affecting the security of life and health in any locality in the State; 6. To maintain chemical, bacteriological and biological laboratories, to make examinations of milk, water, sewage, wastes, and other substances, and to make such diagnosis of diseases as may be deemed necessary for the protection of the people of the State; 7. To purchase and distribute free of charge to citizens of the State diphtheria antitoxin, typhoid vaccine, smallpox vaccine and other sera, vaccines and prophylactics such as are of recognized efficiency in the prevention and treatment of communicable diseases; 8. To obtain, collect and preserve such information relative to mortality, morbidity, disease and health as may be useful in the discharge of its duties or may contribute to the promotion of health or to the security of life in this State; 9. To make investigations and inquiries with respect to the causes of disease, especially epidemics, and to investigate the causes of mortality and the effect of localities, and other conditions upon the public health, and to make such other sanitary investigations as it may deem necessary for the preservation and improvement of the public health; 10. To keep informed of the work of local health officers and agencies throughout the State; 11. To promote the information of the general public in all matters pertaining to public health; 12. To supervise, aid, direct and assist local health authorities or agencies in the administration of the health laws; 13. To enlist the co-operation of organizations of physicians and other agencies for the promotion of the public health in the improvement of health and sanitary conditions throughout the State; 14. To make sanitary, sewage, health and other inspections and examinations for the charitable, penal and reformatory institutions and the normal schools; 15. To inspect, from time to time, all hospitals, sanitaria, and other institutions conducted by county, city, village or township authorities, and to report as to the sanitary conditions and needs of such hospitals, sanitaria and institutions to the official authority having jurisdiction over them; 16. To print, publish and distribute documents, reports, bulletins, certificates and other matter relating to the prevention of diseases and the health and sanitary condition of the State. . THE DEPARTMENT OF REGISTRATION AND EDUCATION. § 58. The department of registration and education shall have 19. To investigate the entomology of the State; 20. To investigate all insects dangerous or injurious to agricultural or horticultural plants and crops, live stock, to nursery trees and plants, to the products of the truck farm and vegetable garden, to shade trees and other ornamental vegetation of cities and villages, to the products of the mills and the contents of warehouses, and all insects injurious or dangerous to the public health; 21. To conduct experiments with methods for the prevention, arrest, abatement and control of insects injurious to persons or property; 22. To instruct the people, by lecture, demonstration or bulletin, in the best methods of preserving and protecting their property and health against injuries by insects; 23. To publish, from time to time, articles on the injurious and beneficial insects of the State; 24. To study the geological formation of the State with reference to its resources of coal, ores, clays, building stones, cement, materials suitable for use in the construction of roads, gas, mineral and artesian water and other products; 25. To publish, from time to time, topographical, geological and other maps to illustrate the resources of the State; 26. To publish, from time to time, bulletins giving a general and detailed description of the geological and mineral resources of the State: 27. To coöperate with the United States geological survey in the preparation and completion of a contour topographical survey and map; 28. To collect facts and data concerning the water resources of the State; 29. To determine standards of purity of drinking water for the various sections of the State; 30. To publish, from time to time, the results of its investigations of the waters of the State. . 50. The Maryland Budget Maryland was the first state to adopt an executive budget system by constitutional amendment. On November 7, 1916, the voters approved by more than two to one, an amendment providing that the governor should submit to the legislature a complete budget each biennium. This document was to contain a full statement of the estimated revenues and proposed expenditures for each of the ensuing years. The following tables, taken from the budget presented by the governor in 1924, illustrate how this mandate is carried out. The first tables indicate the form in which the general summary of the estimated financial condition of the state is presented. This is followed by detailed tables showing what appropriations have been asked for by the departments concerned and those which the governor recommends for adoption. Under the provision of the constitution, the General Assembly is at complete liberty to revise any appropriations for the legislative department, either by increasing or decreasing them. The requests for money for the judiciary may be only increased, however; and the recommendations of the governor for the executive branch may be only decreased. This provision gives the governor so much power in the initiation of proposals for expenditure that it was thought unnecessary to give him a veto over the bill as finally passed. Consequently, the act becomes law without the signature of the governor. SOURCE-Maryland State Budget for the Fiscal Years ending, 1925, 1926, 1927 (Baltimore, 1924), 23-25, 168-170. |