.080 Access to books and records -- Power to obtain testimony.
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43.080 Access to books and records -- Power to obtain testimony.
(1)
The Auditor and his authorized agents shall have access to and may examine all
books, accounts, reports, vouchers, correspondence files, records, money and
property of any state agency. Every officer or employee of any such agency having
such records or property in his possession or under his control shall permit access to
and examination of them upon the request of the Auditor or any agent authorized by
him to make such request.
(2)
The Auditor and his assistants shall have access at all times to the papers, books and
records of the asylums, prisons, institutions for the mentally retarded and
eleemosynary institutions, and public works that he is authorized to examine, and of
any county officer who receives or disburses county funds.
(3)
The Auditor may require information on oath from any person touching any matters
relative to any account that the Auditor is required to state, audit or settle. The
Auditor may administer the oath himself, or have it done by any officer authorized
to administer an oath.
(4)
The Auditor and his assistants may issue process and compel the attendance of
witnesses before them, and administer oaths and compel witnesses to testify in any
of the investigations the Auditor is authorized to make.
Effective: June 17, 1978
History: Amended 1978 Ky. Acts ch. 92, sec. 2, effective June 17, 1978. -- Recodified
1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. secs. 150,
4618-136, 4625, 4636-1.