Attorney General Opinion No. 1986-118

Download or read book Attorney General Opinion No. 1986-118 written by Robert T. Stephan and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: K.S.A. 19-4001 provides that community mental health centers established by counties shall be organized, operated and financed according to the provisions of K.S.A. 19-4001 e̲t̲ s̲e̲q̲. Given this statutory mandate, all money provided for the purposes of this act must be handled in strict compliance with the provisions of K.S.A. 19-4003. K.S.A. 19-4003(a) specifies that funds collected under the provisions of this act shall be paid over to the treasurer of the governing board of the mental health center. Further, this subsection states that the governing board shall have exclusive control over the expenditures of all moneys paid to the credit of its treasurer. Accordingly, the Johnson County Mental Health Center board is prohibited from using the Johnson county administrative structure to manage its funds and perform its payroll and accounts payable functions. Cited herein: K.S.A. 19-4001; K.S.A. 19-4002, as amended by L. 1986, ch. 98, section 1; 19-4003.