174.506 Use of state aircraft.

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(1)Except as provided in subsection

(2)of this section, state aircraft, including air

charters, shall be used only for official business.

(2)State aircraft shall not be used for personal business, except when the Governor or

Lieutenant Governor, for reasons of security, protocol, ceremonial functions, or

overall demands of time, require travel considerations not accorded to other

officials. In recognition of these realities, flights that may be solely for personal

business, or partly for official business or partly for personal business, may be

scheduled for the Governor or the Lieutenant Governor and their immediate

families.

(a)The cost of flights scheduled solely for personal business of the Governor or

Lieutenant Governor shall be charged to that officer in accordance with the

rate schedule set forth in the administrative regulations authorized by KRS

174.504.

(b)If a particular flight is in part official business and part personal business, the

Governor or the Lieutenant Governor shall make a reasonable allocation of the

flight time between official and personal business and be responsible for

paying with nonstate funds to the Capital City Airport Division the charge for

the part of the flight that is allocable to personal business. The rate charged

shall be calculated using costs that would be considered in a rate developed by

a commercial air charter company. In these cases, the allocation made and the

basis for the allocation shall be indicated on the aircraft request form.

(3)Constitutional officers, other elected state officials, members of the General

Assembly, officers and employees of the cabinets, departments, and agencies of

state government, officers and employees of other governmental units, and other

persons traveling under the auspices of a state agency or in connection with state

business deemed desirable by an agency head, including dependents of state

officials, and news media representatives and other persons having an interest in the

official purpose of the trip may be authorized to use state aircraft. Charges for travel

in state aircraft shall be paid by the requesting state agency in accordance with the

rate schedule established in administrative regulations authorized by KRS 174.504.