KRS 43.080: Access to books and records -- Power to obtain testimony.

(1) The Auditor shall have access to and may examine all books, accounts, reports,

vouchers, correspondence files, records, money and property of any state agency.

Every officer or employee of any such agency having such records or property in

his or her posse ssion or under his or her control shall permit access to and

examination of them upon the request of the Auditor.

(2) The Auditor shall have access at all times to the papers, books, and records of the

asylums, prisons, institutions for the intellectually disabled and eleemosynary

institutions, and public works that he or she is authorized to examine, and of any

county officer who receives or disburses county funds.

(3) The Auditor may require information on oath from any person touching any matters

relative to any account or matter that the Auditor is required or authorized to state,

audit, investigate, review, or settle. The Auditor may administer the oath, or have it

done by any officer authorized to administer an oath.

(4) The Auditor may issue process a nd compel the attendance of witnesses and

administer oaths and compel witnesses to testify in any of the audits, reviews, or

investigations the Auditor is authorized to make.

(5) Every state agency shall provide at no cost to the Auditor any software and a ccess

rights that the Auditor deems advisable to view and retrieve any information subject

to this section. Any cost that may be incurred by providing the Auditor with

software and access rights shall be borne by the state agency.

(6) As used in this section, "Auditor" includes:

(a) The Auditor's authorized agents;

(b) The deputy auditor; and

(c) The ombudsman.