23-498. Payment of authorized expenditures.
23-498
23-498. Payment of authorized expenditures.(a) All expenditures provided for in this act shall be paid asfollows:
(1) In each judicial district consisting of a single county suchexpenditure shall be paid by the board of county commissioners orchief judge from the court trustees operationsfund asprovided inK.S.A.23-497 and amendments thereto.
(2) In each judicial district consisting of more than one countywhich has a single courttrustee operation serving all the counties in that district,such expenditure shall be paid by the:
(A) Board of county commissioners ofthe county having the greatestamount of support or restitutionmoney collected by the court trustee's officein such district from the court trustees operations fund of such county, andsuch boardof county commissionersshall send a statement to the board of county commissioners of each ofthe other counties in such district for a proportional amount of suchannual expenditures with such proportion to be based upon the respectiveamounts of support and restitution money collected by thecourt trustee's officeof each county within such judicial district. Each board ofcounty commissioners receiving a statement pursuant to this sectionshall make payment of the same from the court trusteesoperations fund of the county;or
(B) chief judge of such judicial district. Such judgeshall paysuch annual expenditures from the court trustee operations fund in thedistrict court of each county based upon the respective amounts ofsupport and restitution money collected by the court trustee's office ofeach county withinsuch judicial district.Thechief judge shall promptly reimburse the county generalfund forexpenditures made for salary, compensation and fringe benefits made on behalfof the court trustee's office pursuant to K.S.A. 20-162, 20-358 and 20-359, andamendments thereto.
(3) The expenditure for a court trustee office in a multicounty districtwhich does not operate in all counties of the district shall be paidproportionately, as in subsection (2), from the court trustee operations fundof each county served by the court trustee.
(b) The chief judge and the board of countycommissioners mayagree on a reimbursement amount to the county general fund in an amount lessthan the total expenses of the court trustee's office, but such reimbursementamount shall not exceed the total expenses of the court trustee's office.
History: L. 1972, ch. 123, § 7; L. 1978, ch. 105, § 9;L. 1991, ch. 96, § 2;L. 1997, ch. 182, § 101;L. 1999, ch. 57, § 39; July 1.