Sec. 45a-84. Administrator to prepare annual proposed budget. Review by Probate Assembly. Final budget to Chief Court Administrator for approval. Request to Chief Court Administrator for authorization - Connecticut Statutes

      Sec. 45a-84. Administrator to prepare annual proposed budget. Review by Probate Assembly. Final budget to Chief Court Administrator for approval. Request to Chief Court Administrator for authorization to expend additional moneys for emergencies. (a) On or before April first of each year, the Probate Court Administrator shall prepare a proposed budget for the next succeeding fiscal year beginning July first, for the appropriate expenditures of funds from the Probate Court Administration Fund to carry out the statutory duties of the Probate Court Administrator. The Probate Court Administrator shall submit the proposed budget to the executive committee of the Probate Assembly for review. The executive committee shall return the proposed budget to the Probate Court Administrator no later than May first, together with its comments and recommendations concerning the proposed expenditures. The Probate Court Administrator shall thereafter prepare a proposed final budget, including such changes recommended by the executive committee as the Probate Court Administrator deems appropriate. On or before May fifteenth, the Probate Court Administrator shall transmit the proposed final budget to the Chief Court Administrator for approval, together with the comments and recommendations of the executive committee of the Probate Assembly. On or before June fifteenth of that year, the Chief Court Administrator shall take such action on the budget, or any portion thereof, as the Chief Court Administrator deems appropriate. If the Chief Court Administrator fails to act on the proposed budget on or before June fifteenth, the budget shall be deemed approved as proposed.

      (b) The Probate Court Administrator may, from time to time, request authority from the Chief Court Administrator to expend additional money from the Probate Court Administration Fund to respond to any matter that could not have been reasonably anticipated in the regular budget process. A copy of all such requests shall be sent to the president judge of the Connecticut Probate Assembly. If the Chief Court Administrator fails to act on the request within twenty-one calendar days of receipt of the request, the request shall be deemed approved.

      (c) The Probate Court Administrator may authorize such expenditures from the Probate Court Administration Fund for emergency purposes as from time to time may be necessary, provided the aggregate amount of such emergency expenditures for any one fiscal year shall not exceed five thousand dollars. A report on each such expenditure shall be sent to the Chief Court Administrator and the president judge of the Connecticut Probate Assembly within ten days after the expenditure is made.

      (P.A. 93-279, S. 5.)

      History: (Revisor's note: In 1995 references to "Probate Administration Fund" were changed editorially by the Revisors to "Probate Court Administration Fund" to conform section to Sec. 45a-82).