Title VI, Financial Administration

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…

(1) Any person, firm or corporation, having a lawfully authorized written contract with the Commonwealth at the time of or after June 21, 1974, may bring an action against the Commonwealth on the contract, including but not limited to actions either for breach of contracts or for…

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…

The court shall enter its findings as a judgment of the court, and such judgment shall have the same effect and be enforceable as any other judgment of the court in civil cases subject to the provisions of KRS 45A.270.

(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…

Appeals may be taken to the Court of Appeals from Franklin Circuit Court under the same conditions and under the same practice as appeals are taken from judgments in civil causes rendered by Circuit Courts.

(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…

(1) Any claim arising from a construction contract executed and administered by the Transportation Cabinet pursuant to the provisions of KRS Chapters 175, 176, 177 and 180 shall be commenced in Franklin Circuit Court within one (1) year from the time the Commonwealth has determin…

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…

No person, firm, or corporation shall be permitted more than one (1) money recovery upon a claim for the enforcement of or for breach of contract with the Commonwealth.

(1) Each agency which has had an award or judgment against it upon a claim filed pursuant to KRS 45A.240 to 45A.270 shall furnish a certified copy of the award of judgment to the Finance and Administration Cabinet. The first five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) of any award o…

governmental expense. The first five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) of any Kentucky court judgment against the Commonwealth awarding damages on a contract claim under the provisions of KRS 45A.240 to 45A.270 shall be a necessary governmental expense and payment shall be appr…

The decision of any official, board, agent, or other person appointed by the Commonwealth concerning any controversy arising under, or in connection with, the solicitation or award of a contract, shall be entitled to a presumption of correctness and shall not be disturbed unless …

(1) The secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet, or his designee, shall have authority to determine protests and other controversies of actual or prospective bidders or offerors in connection with the solicitation or selection for award of a contract. (2) Any actual o…

In the event of a protest timely filed under KRS 45A.285(2), the Commonwealth shall not proceed further with the solicitation or award involved, until the secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet, or his designee, makes a written and adequately supported determination …

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.

As used in KRS 45A.295 to 45A.320: (1) "State public purchasing unit" shall mean the Finance and Administration Cabinet and any other purchasing agency of this Commonwealth, including the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources; (2) "Local public purchasing unit" shall mean any…

(1) Any public purchasing unit may either participate in, sponsor, conduct, or administer a cooperative purchasing agreement for the acquisition of any supplies, services, or construction with any other public purchasing unit or foreign purchasing activity, in accordance with an …

(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) Any public purchasing unit is authorized, within its discretion, upon written request from another public purchasing unit or foreign purchasing activity, to provide personnel to the requesting public purchasing unit or foreign purchasing activity. Payment to the public purcha…

(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…

procurement requirements. (1) All payments received by a supplying public purchasing unit from any other public purchasing unit or foreign purchasing activity shall be available or appropriated to the supplying public purchasing unit to defray the cost of the services provided. (…

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.

Any local public purchasing unit is authorized to enter into an agreement with any other local public purchasing unit to establish a procedure to resolve disputes arising from the contracts of the participating local public purchasing units.

If federal grant or other federal requirements differ from the provisions of this code or regulations adopted hereunder, nothing in this code or its regulations shall inhibit any public purchasing unit from complying with the terms and conditions of the federal grant or other fed…

Any agreement or collusion among bidders or prospective bidders which restrains, tends to restrain, or is reasonably calculated to restrain competition by agreement to bid at a fixed price, or to refrain from bidding, or otherwise, is prohibited.

No contract shall be awarded, extended, or renewed to a bidder or contractor under this chapter if the bidder or contractor procured an original, subsequent, or similar contract while employing an executive agency lobbyist who was convicted of a crime related to the original, sub…

The purpose of KRS 45A.330 to 45A.340 is to prescribe specific standards to guide public officers and employees in the conduct of their offices or employment, and to proscribe improper conduct to the extent to which such conduct may be sufficiently described to enable statutory p…

As used in KRS 45A.330 to 45A.340 except as may be otherwise indicated by the context: (1) "Agency" means any of the departments of the state government, and any division, board, bureau, commission or other instrumentality within such department and any independent state authorit…

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…

(1) No officer or employee of the General Assembly, or officer or employee of an agency as defined in KRS 45A.335, shall knowingly receive or agree to receive, directly or indirectly, compensation for any services to be rendered, either by himself or another, in negotiations with…

Effect of adoption -- Contracts required to mandate revealing of violations of and compliance with specified KRS chapters -- Effect of nondisclosure or noncompliance. (1) Any local public agency may adopt the provisions of KRS 45A.345 to 45A.460. No other statutes governing purch…

- 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 45A.343 to 45A.460, unless the context indicates otherwise: (1) "Aggregate amount" means the total dollar amount during a fiscal year of items of a like nature, function, and use the need for which can reasonably be determined at the beginning of the fiscal year. I…

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 …

resources through energy efficiency. Recognizing the need in the Commonwealth to preserve to the greatest extent possible natural resources within the Commonwealth which produce energy for the citizens, businesses, schools, and governments within the Commonwealth, it shall be the…

(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…

(1) A local public agency may enter into a guaranteed energy savings contract for innovative solutions for energy conservation measures. The local public agency shall submit a request for proposals. The request for proposals for competitive procurement of guaranteed energy saving…

savings -- Lease-purchase agreements -- Exemption from debt limitations. (1) Guaranteed energy savings contracts may extend beyond the fiscal year in which they become effective. The local public agency shall include in its annual budget and appropriations act, for each subsequen…

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 …