KRS 30A.110: Payment of jurors and witnesses -- Clerk's liability for advancements --

Reports to the Finance and Administration Cabinet -- Penalty.

(1) Each clerk shall pay to each juror and to each witness the compensation allowed to

him by law, under appropriati ons provided by the General Assembly and in

accordance with procedures governing expenditures from appropriations. The clerk

shall take a receipt for each payment made by him showing the date on which

payment is made. A canceled check shall be the equivale nt of a receipt. For the

purpose of providing for such payments, the State Treasurer, on direction of the

Finance and Administration Cabinet, shall advance to each clerk two (2) imprest

funds: one for the payment of jurors which shall be sufficient for the period of

service of each grand or petit jury panel, or both, but not to exceed a period of sixty

(60) days; the other for the payment of Commonwealth witnesses, which shall be

sufficient for a period of time not to exceed sixty (60) days.

(2) Each clerk shall be liable on the clerk's official bond to account for the full amounts

advanced to the clerk under this section. Each clerk shall file a separate statement

concerning each imprest fund with the Finance and Administration Cabinet, in such

form as the cabinet prescribes, showing the amounts disbursed since the last

preceding report, accompanied by a copy of the canceled check, or a receipt for each

amount disbursed signed by the person to whom it was paid, and showing the date

of the payment and such ot her information as the cabinet prescribes. These reports

shall be forwarded to the cabinet within thirty (30) days after the end of the period

for which funds are advanced.

(3) Any clerk who fails to comply with the provisions of subsection (2) of this sec tion

shall be required to pay a penalty of five percent (5%) of all funds not so paid or

accounted for.