Section 2
SEC. 2. Section seventeen of the same Act is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 17. Appropriations by the Board.—The Board shall make all appropriations for the expenses of the government of the city. Whenever the Board fails to pass an appropriation ordinance for any year before the end of the previous year, the appropriation ordinance for such previous year shall be deemed reenacted and shall go into effect on the first day of January of the current year, as the appropriation ordinance for that year, until a new appropriation ordinance is duly enacted. "The Municipal Board shall obtain the written opinion of the city treasurer on any matter involving the levying or collection of taxes or expenditure of funds, but the opinion so obtained shall have no weight beyond that of a recommendation; and the Municipal Board shall have full authority to decide the matter in such manner as it may deem just and advisable for the interests of the city, the provisions of paragraph, (i) of section twenty-seven hereof notwithstanding."