context: Thus, the Court noted that the statutes in question were not enforceable appropriations, because they would, if so considered, violate the debt limitations clause. In City of Camden v. Byrne, the Court relied on a number of decisions holding that certain statutory provisions providing for future expenditures were not "debts" within the meaning of the constitutional prohibition.
citation_a.signal: cf.
citation_a.identifier: 59 N.J. 71, 71
citation_a.parenthetical: "a projected or anticipated future legislative appropriation is not a present debt or liability"
citation_a.sentence: See, e.g., Bulman v. McCrane, 64 N.J. 105, 117-18, 312 A.2d 857 (1973) (State’s obligation to pay future installments of rent, to be paid out of current revenues as annually appropriated, was not a “present debt”); State v. Lanza, 27 N.J. 516, 143 A.2d 571 (1958) (State’s assurance that it would pay municipalities amounts, inter alia, to replace property taxes lost due to condemnation for reservoir system, did not create a “debt” within meaning of debt limitation clause); cf. Holster v. Board of Trustees, supra, 59 N.J. at 71, 279 A.2d 798 (“a projected or anticipated future legislative appropriation is not a present debt or liability”).
citation_b.signal: see
citation_b.parenthetical: State's obligation to pay future installments of rent, to be paid out of current revenues as annually appropriated, was not a "present debt"
citation_b.sentence: See, e.g., Bulman v. McCrane, 64 N.J. 105, 117-18, 312 A.2d 857 (1973) (State’s obligation to pay future installments of rent, to be paid out of current revenues as annually appropriated, was not a “present debt”); State v. Lanza, 27 N.J. 516, 143 A.2d 571 (1958) (State’s assurance that it would pay municipalities amounts, inter alia, to replace property taxes lost due to condemnation for reservoir system, did not create a “debt” within meaning of debt limitation clause); cf. Holster v. Board of Trustees, supra, 59 N.J. at 71, 279 A.2d 798 (“a projected or anticipated future legislative appropriation is not a present debt or liability”).