2014 Kentucky Revised Statutes
CHAPTER 7 - LEGISLATIVE RESEARCH COMMISSION
7.320 Powers and duties of the Commission.
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The Legislative Research Commission or a subcommittee authorized by it shall
study and examine expenditures of state agencies. To facilitate optimum
effectiveness and economy in the performance of this function, the Legislative
Research Commission or a committee or subcommittee authorized by it, shall
employ electronic data processing equipment including computers and other
necessary support equipment capable of providing read only access to the
desired expenditure records. The Commission may organize and adopt rules
for the conduct of its business and do whatever else it considers necessary or
advisable to carry out the purposes of KRS 7.310 to 7.380.
The Commission may adopt rules and prescribe procedures for the conduct of
its affairs.
The Commission or any member thereof or any employee duly authorized by
the Commission or the co-chairmen thereof may administer oaths, issue
subpoenas, compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of papers,
books, accounts, documents, and testimony, and have the deposition of
witnesses taken in the manner prescribed by law for taking depositions in civil
actions. If a person disobeys or refuses to comply with a subpoena, or if a
witness refuses to testify to a matter regarding which he may be lawfully
interrogated, the Franklin Circuit Court may on application of the Commission
compel obedience by proceedings for contempt in the same manner as in the
case of disobedience of the requirements of a subpoena issued from the court
or a refusal to testify in the court. Each witness who appears before the
Commission by its order, other than an officer or employee of the state, is
entitled to the fees and mileage provided for witnesses in civil cases in courts
of record, which shall be audited and paid upon the presentation of proper
vouchers sworn to by such witnesses and approved by the co-chairmen of the
Commission.
Effective:July 13, 1984
History: Amended 1984 Ky. Acts ch. 111, sec. 167, effective July 13, 1984; and
ch. 131, sec. 3, effective July 13, 1984. -- Amended 1978 Ky. Acts ch. 384,
sec. 533, effective June 17, 1978. -- Amended 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 384, sec. 3,
effective June 21, 1974. -- Amended 1970 Ky. Acts ch. 92, sec. 2, effective June
18, 1970. -- Created 1966 Ky. Acts ch. 42, sec. 3, effective July 1, 1966.
Formerly codified as KRS 6.370.
Legislative Research Commission Note (1984). This section was amended by
two 1984 Acts which do not appear to be in conflict and have been compiled
together.
Legislative Research Commission Note. This is former KRS 6.370 as amended,
renumbered by the Reviser of Statutes in 1974.
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