Certain counties may pay attendance expenses of officers at conferences, meetings or hearings -- Statement of expenses to be filed

meetings or hearings -- Statement of expenses to be filed. (1) In any county containing a city of the first class, the members of the fiscal court and any of its employees, the county judge/executive and county attorney and his assistants, when duly authorized by a majority vote of the fiscal court of such county, may attend conferences, meetings, legislative or judicial hearings upon matters pertaining to county government or to the county's business, and the expenses of such attendance shall be borne and paid out of the county levy in the manner provided by such authorization. (2) Before any such expenses are so paid by the fiscal court, the attendant at any such meeting, conference or hearing shall, within ten (10) days after his return therefrom file with the fiscal court an itemized statement of all expenses incurred by him, and such statement shall be a public record and spread at large upon the minute book of such court.