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156.285 Access to records -- Witnesses -- Subpoena.
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The accountant shall have access to and may examine all books, accounts,
reports, vouchers, correspondence files, records, money, and property of any
board. Every officer or employee of any such board 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 accountant.
The committee may require information on oath from any person touching any
matters relative to any account that the accountant is required to audit. The
committee may administer the oath, or have it done by any officer authorized to
administer an oath.
The committee may issue process and compel the attendance of witnesses
before it, and administer oaths and compel witnesses to testify in any of the
investigations the accountant is authorized to make.
Effective:July 15, 1994
History: Amended 1994 Ky. Acts ch. 296, sec. 5, effective July 15, 1994. -Repealed and reenacted 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 476, Pt. V, sec. 368, effective July
13, 1990. -- Created 1962 Ky. Acts ch. 244, Art. II, sec. 4.
Legislative Research Commission Note (9/2/94). By letter of September 2, 1994,
the Secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet, acting under KRS
48.500, advised the Reviser of Statutes of his determination "that no funds
appropriated by the Executive Branch Appropriations Act for the 1995-96
biennium can be identified as having been appropriated for the purpose of
implementing Sections 1 to 7 of House Bill No. 616, Chapter (296), Acts of the
1994 Regular Session of the General Assembly." Accordingly, the amendment
to this statute contained in 1994 Ky. Acts ch. 296 is void under sec. 3(8) of that
Act and has not been codified into the statute.
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