Title VI, Financial Administration

(1) Any department, board, commission, agency, advisory council, interstate compact, corporate body, or instrumentality of the Commonwealth of Kentucky applying for federal funds, aids, loans, or grants shall file a summary notification of the intended application with the Depart…

decrease in employee salaries. The pick up of employee pension contributions pursuant to Acts 1982, ch. 166, shall not be construed as either an increase or a decrease in the amount budgeted for employee salaries by the state or any other employer affected by Acts 1982, ch. 166.

promulgate administrative regulations. (1) Except as otherwise provided by law, each state officer or employee who is authorized by law to receive, from corporations or from the State Treasury or from any fund appropriated out of the State Treasury, traveling or other expenses in…

Any funds received into the State Treasury which are later determined not to be due to the state may be refunded to the person who paid such funds into the Treasury. The Finance and Administration Cabinet may issue a warrant to disburse the funds upon a request from the budget un…

(1) The Finance and Administration Cabinet shall examine all authorizations for payment presented, and if it finds them correct shall file them and issue warrants upon the State Treasurer. The Finance and Administration Cabinet shall not certify any claim to the State Treasurer u…

The Finance and Administration Cabinet, the Chief Justice, and the Legislative Research Commission for their respective branches of government shall investigate any alleged mismanagement of any of the affairs of the state by any officer, employee, or governing body responsible wi…

For the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this chapter and those sections of KRS Chapters 41, 45, and 48 relating to the state budget and financial administration, the secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet, the Chief Justice, and the Legislative Research Commis…

certified public accountant. (1) A budget unit of any branch of government may request that an audit be performed by the Auditor of Public Accounts. Such request shall be in writing and shall include a statement of the scope and nature of the proposed audit. (2) No budget unit sh…

All capital construction projects or capital outlays for the improvement of land or the construction, alteration, reconstruction, or major repair of any building or other structure, or sewage disposal or water supply system, or any bridge or road except a road and bridge under th…

(1) No state officer or budget unit shall, after the close of any fiscal year, incur, or vote, order, or approve the incurring of, any obligation or expenditure under any appropriation for that fiscal year, and no expenditure shall be made from or charged to any appropriation for…

(1) Any claim against any agency, department, or budget unit not presented or encumbered for payment within the fiscal year in which the obligation was incurred may, after determination by the secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet, be found to be a valid claim again…

Notwithstanding the provisions of KRS 45.229 and notwithstanding any other provision of the Kentucky Revised Statutes, any unexpended or unencumbered balance of any Social Security appropriation, made available for expenditure by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services in the …

controls and preaudit procedures for state agencies -- Collection of improper payments -- Referral of certified debts by agency or local government to Department of Revenue -- Information to be provided to State Treasurer. (1) As used in KRS 45.237 to 45.239: (a) "Agency" means a…

Cost-ineffective debts -- Treatment of collected debts -- Annual report. (1) Debts that are certified by an agency or by a local government as provided in KRS 45.237 shall be referred to the department for collection. The department shall be vested with all the powers necessary t…

liquidated debts -- Annual report. (1) The Court of Justice shall initiate, by October 1, 2004, fully implement by October 1, 2005, and thereafter maintain a system for tracking and identifying debts. (2) The Court of Justice shall establish and operate a system for collecting de…

-- KRS 45.237 and 45.238 applicable to erroneous payments recovered after 60 days. (1) Whenever any payment from public money is made in error, or for an amount in excess of the amount found to be properly due and payable, and the payment or excess amount is recovered within sixt…

Justice to develop inventory of each debt -- Liquidated debts of agency, Court of Justice, or local government submitted to Department of Revenue -- Accounting of uncollected debt -- Treatment of collected debt -- Agreements with public postsecondary education institutions -- Ann…

No head of a budget unit or assistant designated by him shall approve any advice of employment, purchase order, contract requisition for reservation of funds, or letter of travel authorization request for travel outside of Kentucky that will involve an expenditure of any sum in e…

Except as expressly authorized in this chapter, no person shall incur, or order or vote to incur, any obligation against the Commonwealth in excess of, or any expenditure not authorized by, an appropriation of the General Assembly and an allotment of funds provided by KRS Chapter…

There is created within the road fund the highway construction contingency account. The account shall consist of moneys appropriated to the account by the General Assembly. The Transportation Cabinet may transfer money from the highway construction contingency account to a highwa…

(1) Expenditures shall be limited to the amounts and purposes for which appropriations are made. All expenditures shall be reflected in the unified and integrated system of accounts as provided by KRS 45.305. (2) The Finance and Administration Cabinet shall prescribe all informat…

Budget units having bona fide receivables may, with the permission of the secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet, establish receivable accounts with a corresponding credit to an allotment account.

(1) Revolving accounts may be established by appropriation in a branch budget bill to finance activities which are self-supporting in whole or in part. (2) Trust and agency accounts may be established by a branch budget bill to receive and disburse contributions, gifts, donations…

(1) As used in this section: (a) "Cabinet" means the Public Protection Cabinet; (b) "Cost or fee for administrative purposes" means any expenditure that is not: 1. Direct aid to a Kentucky resident or a small business; or 2. A processing fee imposed by a merchant bank or credit c…

Fees for licenses, permits or certificates of any kind due any budget unit shall be collected by the budget unit at the time such licenses, permits or certificates are issued by it, and all other money accruing to the budget units or to the state through the budget units shall al…

and State Treasurer's accounts. The Finance and Administration Cabinet shall, during the first ten (10) days of each month, reconcile the statements furnished by the state depositories and the accounts of the State Treasurer.

(1) The Finance and Administration Cabinet shall have and exercise all administrative functions of the Commonwealth, except as otherwise provided by law, in relation to: (a) Developing financial policies and plans for consideration by the Governor as the basis for his budget reco…

(1) The Finance and Administration Cabinet shall install a unified and integrated system of accounts for the state which shall comply with generally accepted accounting principles, and which shall be in addition to other accounts required by this chapter, and which shall include:…

The Finance and Administration Cabinet shall examine all formats used or proposed for use by any budget unit for the purposes specified in this section, and shall design or redesign them with a view to providing for the simplification, unification, and integration of financial an…

The Finance and Administration Cabinet shall keep an accurate account of all warrants and certificates drawn or issued by the cabinet, showing in due succession the date and amount of each warrant, and for what and to whom issued. The cabinet shall also keep records of all receip…

Each budget unit shall maintain a current inventory of equipment having an original cost of five hundred dollars ($500) or more. The inventory shall be available for examination by the Finance and Administration Cabinet at all times.

Except where otherwise provided by law, checks for salaries due to public officers and employees shall be issued weekly, semimonthly, monthly or for such other period of time not exceeding thirty (30) days which may be designated by the Finance and Administration Cabinet with the…

- Provider fees -- Cash rounding. (1) (a) In addition to any payment method authorized by law, and notwithstanding any statute to the contrary, any state agency may accept the following methods of payment to secure funds for deposit into the State Treasury: 1. Credit card; 2. Deb…

As used in KRS 45.351 to 45.359 unless the context otherwise requires: (1) "Block grant" means any federal block grant authorized by the federal Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 (P.L. 97-35) and any subsequent amendments thereto and any federal block grant authorized by …

(1) Every state administering agency shall submit any block grant application for the following fiscal year to the Legislative Research Commission no less than ninety (90) days prior to the date of submission, as required by federal law, of the block grant application to the fede…

(1) State administering agencies shall not have continuation block grant application requests. Each application for a block grant shall be deemed a new application. (2) No state administering agency shall receive or expend any block grant or other funds included in a block grant …

(1) The Legislative Research Commission shall, within ten (10) days of receiving any block grant application from the state administering agency, provide for statewide notice, pursuant to KRS Chapter 424, of public hearings to be conducted by the designated review body for the pu…

Vote required for approval. (1) The Commission shall refer each block grant application received to the designated review body for review and consideration. (2) The designated review body shall review and consider each block grant application according to the following standards …

Under the economic development funding portion of the Commonwealth's Community Development Block Grant program, economic development projects recommended for funding by the Cabinet for Economic Development shall be given consideration.

Research Commission. (1) No later than thirty (30) days prior to the state administering agency submission of each block grant application to the federal administering agency, the designated review body shall advise the Commission in writing of its findings of fact on each block …

(1) The Commission or its designated review body shall review the actual use and distribution of all block grant funds made available during the preceding year to any state administering agency. (2) Any state administering agency receiving block grant funds shall, within thirty (…

(1) There is hereby created a block grant legislative oversight fund which may be expended by the Commission for the purpose of implementing and administering the provisions of KRS 45.351 to 45.359 and 273.453. (2) Each state administering agency shall, to the extent permitted by…

(1) If any other section of KRS 45.351 to 45.358 is declared unconstitutional, any other statute to the contrary notwithstanding, no block grant money received from the United States government shall be spent or allocated unless appropriated by the General Assembly in regular or …

Where title to any property or any interest therein is transferred, for monetary or other consideration, by or to the Commonwealth of Kentucky by deed, bill of sale, or otherwise, the purchase price or other consideration shall be set out in full on the face of the deed, bill of …

It is the policy of the Commonwealth that all bills shall be paid on time.

A "purchasing agency" is any state organizational unit or administrative body as defined in KRS 12.010 that actually receives goods or services from a vendor.