KRS 45.253: Revolving, trust, or agency accounts -- Charges for services by agencies.

(1) Revolving accounts may be established by appropriation in a branch budget bill to

finance activities which are self-supporting in whole or in part.

(2) Trust and agency accounts may be established by a branch budget bill to receive and

disburse contrib utions, gifts, donations, devises, and federal appropriations, and,

when authorized by law, by depositing all of the fees (which include fees for

maintenance in state institutions, incidental fees, tuition fees, fees for board and

room, athletics, and stud ent activities), rentals, admittance, sales, licenses collected

by law, subventions, and other miscellaneous receipts of budget units.

(3) The head of the budget unit or other responsible fiscal agent of the unit for which a

revolving, trust, or agency account has been established shall deposit with the State

Treasury all receipts of the character above described, and the Finance and

Administration Cabinet shall credit all receipts to the budget unit and shall keep

separate accounting for each account so established.

(4) The amounts credited to any revolving, trust, or agency account so provided, shall

be held available for disbursement for the purpose provided by law and shall not be

diverted to any other purpose. Revolving, trust, or agency accounts shall be subject

to withdrawal from the State Treasury by the head of each budget unit when actually

needed, on requisition to the Finance and Administration Cabinet in the same

manner provided by law as other state funds are withdrawn. Funds received from

the federal government in the form of grants or otherwise may be expended for the

purpose intended even though received in a fiscal year other than that in which the

related original encumbrance or expenditure was incurred. Trust and agency funds

shall be allotted before an expenditure is made; and the secretary of the Finance and

Administration Cabinet may withhold allotment of general fund appropriations to

the extent trust and agency funds are available.

(5) Subject to prior approval by the secretary of the F inance and Administration

Cabinet, the Chief Justice, and the Legislative Research Commission for their

respective branches, any budget unit which, as an incident to its authorized duties

and functions, furnishes requested services or materials to any pers ons outside state

government, where such services or materials are not required by law to be

furnished gratuitously, may charge such persons an amount not to exceed the total

expense to the budget unit of the services or materials furnished. The receipts f rom

the approved charges shall be credited to the surplus account of the general fund.

Payroll deductions for the Department of Kentucky State Police legal fund shall be

made without any service fees or charges.

(6) The Commonwealth Office of Technology ma y charge any agency of local

government an amount, not to exceed the total expense to the department, for

services rendered or materials furnished at the request of the local government

agency, unless the services or materials are required by law to be fur nished

gratuitously. The receipts from the authorized charges shall be deposited in the State

Treasury and credited to the trust and agency fund, the Commonwealth Office of

Technology's operating account.

(7) All receipts which accrue as the result of the Commonwealth Office of

Technology's providing on -line computer access to public records by

nongovernment entities shall be deposited in the State Treasury and credited to the

trust and agency fund, the Commonwealth Office of Technology's operating

account.