KRS 26A.164: Court facility use allowance contingency fund -- Purpose -- Conditional

use -- Legislative oversight.

(1) There is created a court facility use allowance contingency fund. The fund shall

consist of money appropriated to it in the judicial branch budge t by the General

Assembly. Money in the fund shall not lapse but shall be carried forward to the next

fiscal year or biennium.

(2) The Court of Justice may agree to increase the budgeted scope of a court project or

project pool authorized in a judicial bra nch budget bill enacted by the General

Assembly, and may use the use allowance contingency fund to cover any resulting

increase in the budgeted annual use allowance, if and only if:

(a) The appropriate unit of government first submits a proposal for the increase to

the Court Facilities Standards Committee, and the Court Facilities Standards

Committee approves the increase;

(b) The annual use allowance for the project or project pool, adjusted for the

proposed increase in scope, would not exceed the annual u se allowance

specified for that project or project pool in the multiyear use allowance

schedule set out in the judicial branch budget bill by more than fifteen percent

(15%); and

(c) The requirements of KRS 26A.166 have been met.