222 - Headquarters allowances.

§ 222. Headquarters allowances.  1. On the certificate of the adjutant  general,  the  comptroller  shall draw his warrant upon the treasurer in  favor of the commanding officer of any unit to  which  an  allowance  is  made  for  the  headquarters thereof in a sum not exceeding two thousand  dollars. Such allowances in specified amounts shall be available for the  headquarters of units  as  designated  by  the  adjutant  general  in  a  schedule  filed by him and approved by the director of the budget within  the amount of annual appropriations therefor.    2. The funds thus allowed shall only be  expended  by  the  respective  commanding officers of the organizations to which the fund is allowed in  accordance with regulations approved by the adjutant general.    3.  The  adjutant  general is hereby authorized and empowered to draw,  use, apply or place in  escrow  to  the  benefit  of  any  unit  of  the  organized  militia  and  of units of the organized militia in the active  military service of the  United  States,  or  otherwise  to  direct  the  disposition  of  any and all moneys and balances remaining on deposit to  the credit of the custodian of any headquarters allowance of any unit of  the organized militia which has been disbanded, deactivated, or  ordered  or  called  into the active military service of the United States, or to  pay bills chargeable against such headquarters allowance of disbanded or  deactivated units or of units ordered or called into the active military  service of the United States from such  moneys.  The  custodian  of  any  headquarters  allowance  shall  pay  to  the  adjutant general, upon his  order, all moneys remaining in his hands to the credit of any  disbanded  or  deactivated  unit  of  the organized militia or of a unit ordered or  called into the active military service of the United States.    All unexpended and unobligated  balances  of  headquarters  allowances  remaining  to  the credit of any unit of the organized militia or of any  disbanded or deactivated unit, and of any unit ordered  or  called  into  the  active  military  service  of the United States shall at the end of  each fiscal year be turned over to the adjutant general and  transmitted  by him to the state treasurer.