45.101 Expense accounts of state officers and employees -- Receipts -- Authority to promulgate administrative regulations. - Kentucky Statutes

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Page 1 of 2 45.101 Expense accounts of state officers and employees -- Receipts -- Authority to 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 incident
to the discharge of official duties shall submit to the Finance and Administration
Cabinet information regarding the expenses and necessary receipts as provided by
administrative regulation promulgated by the Finance and Administration Cabinet,
provided that any expenses in excess of ten dollars ($10) shall be accompanied by a
receipt, unless the Finance and Administration Cabinet increases the minimum
expense amount for which a receipt is required as provided in this section. The
required information and documentation shall be provided before the cabinet shall
audit or pay the expenses. The Finance and Administration Cabinet may promulgate
an administrative regulation to increase the minimum expense amount for which a
receipt is required, not to exceed twenty-five dollars ($25). The Finance and
Administration Cabinet may rely on a preaudit performed by the budget unit as a
basis for issuing a warrant. (2) The Finance and Administration Cabinet may promulgate administrative regulations to permit budget units to contract with airlines, railroads, hotels, or other companies
for services to a group of their employees while on official travel status. The
expenses are to be submitted to the Finance and Administration Cabinet on forms
prescribed by the Finance and Administration Cabinet before the cabinet shall audit
or pay the expenses. (3) The Finance and Administration Cabinet may promulgate administrative regulations to permit state officers or employees to assign their claim for reimbursement of
travel expenses to airline, railroad, hotel, or other companies in payment of services
rendered as provided for in subsections (1) and (2) of this section. (4) Each state officer or employee who by reason of the duties assigned to the officer's or employee's office is required to be at the state capital for the majority of the time,
or who has an office located at the state capital, shall not be permitted to charge for
expenses except from the state capital to the place where the business the officer or
employee is transacting is to be transacted, and from that place back to the state
capital, and each officer or employee who is assigned to duty at some place other
than the state capital shall only be permitted to charge to the state such expenses as
are incurred in going from that place to the place where the business is transacted,
and returning. Expenses in going from the state capital or the place where the
officer or employee is assigned to duty to the officer's or employee's real place of
residence, or in return therefrom, shall not be allowed unless it is shown that it was
necessary for the officer or employee to make the trip in the discharge of business
for the state. (5) The Finance and Administration Cabinet may promulgate administrative regulations to permit the payment of travel and other expenses incidental to the official
activities of formally organized groups sponsored by or otherwise representing state
agencies. The payment may be made direct to service establishments in the manner Page 2 of 2 set forth in subsection (3) of this section, by an inter-account bill between budget
units, or by reimbursement to the official or other employee who has been
designated as the officer-in-charge of the organized group. If it is necessary that one
(1) or more state employees or officials travel with the group, their expenses may be
included in the total expenses for the group. (6) The Finance and Administration Cabinet may promulgate administrative regulations allowing heads of budget units to establish imprest cash funds for reimbursement of
travel expenses. (7) Except as provided in KRS Chapter 6, but the provisions of any other laws to the contrary notwithstanding, and in lieu of the reimbursement of travel and other
incidental expenses authorized by subsection (1) of this section, the Finance and
Administration Cabinet may promulgate administrative regulations to provide for
the payment of a fixed expense allowance per day to be established by the secretary
of the Finance and Administration Cabinet, plus necessary travel expenses, to each
state officer or employee who is authorized by law to be reimbursed for expenses
incurred in the discharge of official duties. This payment shall be made from an
appropriation for this purpose to a budget unit of a branch of government. Effective: May 30, 1997
History: Amended 1997 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 4, sec. 16, effective May 30, 1997. -- Created 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 450, sec. 42, effective July 1, 1983.