Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel August 16, 1995 (Government Operations in the Event of a Lapse in Appropriations)

Government Operations in the Event of a

Lapse in Appropriations

A government agency may employ personal services in advance of appropriations only when there is a

reasonable and articulable connection between the function to be performed and the safety of human

life or the protection of property, and when there is some reasonable likelihood that either or both

would be compromised in some