Arkansas Code of 1987 (2023) › Title 19 - PUBLIC FINANCE (§§ 19-1-201 — 19) › Chapter 4 - STATE ACCOUNTING AND BUDGETARY PROCEDURES (§§ 19-4-101 — 19-4-2202) › Subchapter 16 - SALARIES AND PAYROLL DISBURSEMENT (§§ 19-4-1601 — 19-4-1615) › Section 19-4-1609 - State-supported institutions of higher education

(a)
(1)
Pursuant to administrative procedures established by the Chief Fiscal Officer of the State, each state-supported institution of higher education may request a salary and personal services matching, or a maintenance and general operations expense disbursement procedure, or both. This procedure shall be requested, in writing from the executive head, communicated to the Chief Fiscal Officer of the State by which, effective at a date in accordance with the request, each payroll for all its salaries payable to employees, or a maintenance and general operations expense of the institution and personal services matching for employees of the institution, or both, may be disbursed by the institution and paid from state agency bank funds of the institution, subject to reimbursement and correction of reporting as provided in this section.
(2)
(A)
The Chief Fiscal Officer of the State may approve such salary and personal services matching, or a maintenance and general operations expense disbursement procedure, or both, for such reimbursement if he or she determines that each institution has complied with all administrative procedures established by the Chief Fiscal Officer of the State.
(B)
(i)
The Chief Fiscal Officer of the State may revoke any such approval by transmitting a thirty-day notice to the executive head of the institution when the Chief Fiscal Officer of the State finds that internal administrative procedures and controls of the institution are not adequate.
(ii)
The Legislative Joint Auditing Committee shall advise the Chief Fiscal Officer of the State and keep him or her informed regarding any of its findings which may be relevant to such determination regarding these institutions.
(b)
(1)
Upon completion of salary and personal services matching, or a maintenance and general operations expense disbursement, or both, by the institution, the disbursing officer or other appropriate official of the institution shall examine the payroll or a maintenance and general operations expense, or both, as disbursed for such amounts as are properly payable from State Treasury funds.
(2)
At such time as the disbursing officer or other appropriate official of the institution examines the payroll, or a maintenance and general operations expense for determining the reimbursable amount, or both, he or she shall also review it in order to discover any erroneous or improper payments as provided by law. The liability for those payments shall be with the executive head of that institution and its bonded disbursing officer, or his or her designated bonded assistant.
(c)
All salaries and personal services matching, or a maintenance and general operations expense, or both, shall be subject to the restrictions and controls provided by law and the administrative procedures of the Chief Fiscal Officer of the State.
(d)
Under this section, the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences may utilize appropriated funds to authorize procedures for the disbursement of indigent care maintenance and general operations appropriations to be paid from cash funds of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, subject to reimbursement and correction of reporting.
Amended by Act 2023, No. 875,§ 39, eff. 7/1/2023.
Acts 1979, No. 578, § 1; A.S.A. 1947, § 13-349.2; Acts 1989, No. 688, § 1; 1997, No. 758, § 1; 2001, No. 1453, § 45.