(Execution)
Article 220.
The chief executive shall prescribe procedures for execution of budget in accordance with the standards established by cabinet order, and shall execute the budget pursuant thereto.
2.
The money appropriated in the budget of annual expenditures may not be transferred between sections or between subsections. However if authorized in the budget, such money may be transferred between subsections, insofar as necessary for the execution of budget.
3.
Except for the money appropriated in the biennial appropriation, no part of money appropriated in the budget of expenditures for a fiscal year may be expended in the succeeding fiscal year. However, such portion of the money obligated within the fiscal year, but for any inevitable cause left unexpended at the end of the fiscal year (including the money for expenses incidental to public works or other projects for which such obligation has been made), may be carried over into the succeeding fiscal year.
(Investigation)
Article 221.
The chief executive may demand reports on the actual or estimated state of revenues and expenditures from commissions or commissioners or any competent organ thereunder, make field investigations on their execution of budget, or request them to take necessary measures in conformity with the results of such investigations, in order to assure proper execution of budget.
2.
The chief executive may make investigations on, or demand reports from, contractors of public works, suppliers of goods, recipients (direct or indirect) of subsidies, grants-in-aid, loans, etc. or those commissioned to make investigations, examinations researches, etc.
3.
The provisions of the preceding two paragraphs shall apply mutatis mutandis to any corporation specified in a cabinet order in which the ordinary local public body has made an investment, to any corporation specified in a cabinet order for which the ordinary local public body obligates itself by guaranteeing the repayment of the principal of a loan or its interest, or shoulders its liabilities by compensating for its losses or in any other manner, or to any fiduciary of a trust specified in a cabinet order in which the ordinary local public body has the right to receive benefits.
(Limitation on Bylaws)
Article 222.
The chief executive shall not submit to the assembly any bylaw or other bills which involve a financial charge, unless and until necessary budgetary measures therefor are anticipated to be secured.
