424.220 Financial statements -- Contents -- Publication requirements -- Exempted
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officers.
(1)Excepting officers who are exempted under subsection
(8)of this section, every
public officer of any city, county, or district less than a county, or of any board,
commission, or other authority of a city, county, or district whose duty it is to
collect, receive, have the custody, control, or disbursement of any funds collected
from the public in any form shall, at the expiration of each fiscal year, prepare an
itemized, sworn statement of the funds collected, received, held, or disbursed by
him or her during the fiscal year just closed, unless he or she has complied with
KRS 424.230.
(2)The statement shall show:
(a)The total amount of funds collected and received during the fiscal year from
each individual source; and
(b)The total amount of funds disbursed during the fiscal year to each individual
payee. The list shall include only aggregate amounts to vendors exceeding one
thousand dollars ($1,000).
(3)Only the totals of amounts paid to each individual as salary or commission and
public utility bills shall be shown. The amount of salaries paid to all nonelected
county employees shall be shown as lump-sum expenditures by category, including
but not limited to road department, jails, solid waste, public safety, and
administrative personnel.
(4)The financial reporting and publishing requirements for a school district are
provided in KRS 160.463.
(5)The officer shall procure and include in or attach to the financial statement, as a part
thereof, a certificate from the cashier or other proper officer of the banks in which
the funds are or have been deposited during the past year, showing the balance, if
any, of funds to the credit of the officer making the statement.
(6)To provide notice to the public that the city's financial statement has been
completed as required by this section:
(a)The appropriate officer of a city that has performed an audit under KRS
91A.040 for the fiscal year or years, including the appropriate officer of any
municipally owned electric, gas, or water system, shall publish the audit
report in accordance with KRS 91A.040(8); and
(b)The appropriate officer of a city that has not conducted an annual audit for the
fiscal year under one
(1)of the exceptions provided in KRS 91A.040(2) or
shall publish a legal display advertisement of not less than six
(6)column
inches in a newspaper qualified under KRS 424.120 that the statement
required by subsection
(1)of this section has been prepared and that copies
have been provided to each local newspaper of general circulation, each news
service, and each local radio and television station which has on file with the
city a written request to be provided a statement. The advertisement shall be
published within ninety
(90)days after the close of the fiscal year.
(7)To provide notice to the public that the county's financial statement has been
completed as required by this section, the appropriate officer of a county shall
publish the county's audit, prepared in accordance with KRS 43.070 or 64.810, in
the same manner that city audits are published in accordance with KRS 91A.040(8).
(8)The provisions of this section shall not apply to officers of:
(a)A city of the first class;
(b)A county containing a city of the first class;
(c)A consolidated local government;
(d)An urban-county government;
(e)A city with a population equal to or greater than twenty thousand (20,000)
based upon the most recent federal decennial census;
(f)A public agency or joint public agency of a:
1. City of the first class;
2. Consolidated local government; or
3. County containing a city of the first class; or
(g)A school district of a:
1. City of the first class;
2. Consolidated local government; or
3. County containing a city of the first class.