9-13-207 - Scope of assistance Guidelines Personnel Audits County budgets.
9-13-207. Scope of assistance Guidelines Personnel Audits County budgets.
(a) Whenever a loan is guaranteed by the state funding board, the director shall, subject to the director's discretion, provide emergency technical assistance to such local government until such time as the local government has completely repaid any loans guaranteed by or owed to the state.
(b) The director shall provide emergency technical assistance under the guidelines of the statutes or private acts applicable to the local government and shall perform the duties prescribed by such statutes or private acts; provided, that if the applicable local government purchasing law authorizes emergency purchases, such emergency purchases shall only be made with the prior approval of the director.
(c) All authority for the implementation and administration of the laws set out in subsection (b) shall be vested in the director.
(d) (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of the law, the director has total and complete authority over the budget, purchases and expenditures of such local government, including the budget, purchases and expenditures of the local government school system and enterprise funds.
(2) The commissioner of education shall appoint a qualified and responsible person to advise and assist the director on budgeting, accounting, purchasing, and expenditures of the school system of the local government.
(e) The director shall require such periodic information from a local government operating under the provisions of this part and require such audits as the director may deem necessary. The annual budget of each local government shall be submitted to the director at least three (3) weeks prior to its adoption. The director shall determine whether or not the budget will be in balance and is fiscally responsible. No budget shall be adopted by the legislative body until it shall have been approved by the director. Such governing body shall adopt a budget at the first meeting of the legislative body in July of each year or prior to such meeting as required by any public or private act, or as soon thereafter as practical, but in no event shall the budget be adopted later than the third Monday in September.
[Acts 1984, ch. 996, § 8; 1992, ch. 526, § 8; 1995, ch. 63, § 1.]