Section 1782 - Adoption of budget; publication of proposed budget and notice of final action date(a) The proposed budget shall be prepared and adopted as follows: (1) The public shall be given notice by publication in one newspaper of general circulation at least twenty days before the date set for the adoption of the budget that the budget is available for public inspection. The notice shall contain the date set for the adoption of the budget and the manner in which the proposed budget has been made available for public inspection.(2) The budget shall be adopted on or before December 31.(b) If any revision of the proposed budget is made after it has been published, such that the estimated expenditures in the adopted budget would be increased more than ten per centum in the aggregate over the proposed budget as made available for public inspection, such revised budget shall not be adopted with any such increases therein, unless it be again made available for public inspection, and for protest of such increases, for a period of at least ten days after notice to that effect is published as hereinbefore provided.Amended by P.L. TBD 2018 No. 154, § 44, eff. 12/24/2018.1955, Aug. 9, P.L. 323, § 1782. Amended 1967, Dec. 14, P.L. 831, § 1, effective 1/1/1969.