1-254. Limitation on duty of statutory implementation; legislative appropriation requirement No statute may be construed to impose a duty on an officer, agent or employee of this state to discharge a responsibility or to create any right in a person or group if the discharge or right would require an expenditure of state monies in excess of the expenditure authorized by legislative appropriation made for that specific purpose.
Arizona Legal Code
§ 1.254
Source: https://www.azleg.gov/ars/1/00254.htm· Version 2026