56.463 Powers of cabinet in determining need, controlling, and disposing of real

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estate. The cabinet shall have the power and duty:

(1)To determine the comparative needs and demands of the various state agencies for

acquiring real estate and for building projects;

(2)To purchase or otherwise acquire all real property determined to be needed for state

use and upon the approval of the secretary of the Finance and Administration

Cabinet as to the determination of need and as to the action of purchase or other

acquisition, except as provided in KRS Chapters 175, 176, 177, and 180. All such

acquisitions of real property or interests therein shall be made in accordance with

KRS 45A.045;

(3)To sell or otherwise dispose of all property, including any interest in real property,

of the state that is not needed or has become unsuitable for public use or would be

more suitable consistent with the public interest for some other use as determined

by the secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet. All such sales or other

disposition shall be made in accordance with KRS 45A.045;

(a)To control the use of any real property owned or otherwise held by the

Commonwealth, or any state agency, and to determine for what periods of

time and for what purposes any state agency may use the same, including the

agency for whose use it was initially acquired or improved, and to determine

what appropriate uses shall be made of such real property during periods that

the cabinet finds the same is not required for the purposes of any particular

state agency. The cabinet shall allocate to the General Assembly and the