2013 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 15 - DEPARTMENT OF LAW 15.060 Actions to collect and recover money due Commonwealth upon request of Department of Revenue.
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15.060 Actions to collect and recover money due Commonwealth upon
request of Department of Revenue.
Upon written request of the Department of Revenue, the Attorney General shall:
(1) With the assistance of the Auditor of Public Accounts and the Department of
Revenue, investigate the condition of any unsatisfied claim, demand, account,
and judgment in favor of the Commonwealth.
(2) When he believes that any fraudulent, erroneous or illegal fee bill, account,
credit, charge or claim has been erroneously or improperly approved, allowed
or paid out of the Treasury to any person, institute the necessary actions to
recover the same. To this end he may employ assistants and experts to assist
in examining the fee bills, accounts, settlements, credits and claims, and the
books, records and papers of any of the officers of the Commonwealth.
(3) Institute the necessary actions to collect and cause the payment into the
Treasury of all unsatisfied claims, demands, accounts and judgments in favor
of the Commonwealth, except where specific statutory authority is given the
Department of Revenue to do so.
(4) Comply with KRS 48.005, if any funds of any kind or nature whatsoever are
recovered by or on behalf of the Commonwealth, in any legal action, including
an ex rel. action in which the Attorney General has entered an appearance or
is a party under statutory or common law authority.
Effective:June 20, 2005
History: Amended 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 85, sec. 38, effective June 20, 2005. -Amended 2004 Ky. Acts ch. 192, sec. 6, effective April 21, 2004. -- Amended
2000 Ky. Acts ch. 483, sec. 3, effective April 21, 2000. -- Recodified 1942 Ky.
Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. secs. 112-1,
340a-3.
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