KRS 32.070: Expense allowances for grand jurors, petit jurors, and persons summoned

for jury service.

Beginning July 1, 1976, or at such earlier date as may be fixed as hereinafter provided,

grand jurors, petit jurors and persons summoned for jury service in Circu it Court eligible

for payment of the compensation designated in KRS 29A.170(1) shall be paid, in addition

thereto, the sum of seven dollars and fifty cents ($7.50) per day as reimbursement of

expenses incurred, which sum is hereby determined to be the equi valent of the minimum

daily expenses reasonably to be incurred by such juror or person. Payment of such

reimbursement for expenses may be made beginning as of such date prior to July 1, 1976,

but not prior to July 1, 1974, as may be fixed by the Governor u pon recommendation of

the secretary of justice and public safety if and to the extent that prior to July 1, 1976, the

Commonwealth of Kentucky is awarded grant funds by the Law Enforcement Assistance

Administration of the United States Department of Justic e on a matching basis of not less

than ninety percent (90%) federal funds and ten percent (10%) state funds which grant

funds are sufficient to pay the full cost of the reimbursement of expenses, and of the

administrative expenses related thereto, authoriz ed by this section from the date so fixed

through June 30, 1976. Eligible state funds appropriated for the 1974-1976 biennium may

be used for matching purposes so long as such use does not reduce the level of services

provided in the executive budget for that biennium.