Kansas Statutes > Chapter 75 > Article 55 – Payroll Accounting for State Agencies
Current as of: 2023 | Check for updates
|
Other versions
Terms Used In Kansas Statutes > Chapter 75 > Article 55 - Payroll Accounting for State Agencies
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- approval date: means the date on which such approval is given by the secretary of administration. See Kansas Statutes 75-5501a
- Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
- disaster: includes disasters designated at level II and above in the American national red cross regulations and procedures. See Kansas Statutes 75-5547
- employee: means any appointed or elective officer or any employee of the state of Kansas. See Kansas Statutes 75-5530
- Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
- implementation date: means the date fixed under this subsection by the secretary of administration. See Kansas Statutes 75-5501a
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
- Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
- Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
- State agency: means any state office or officer, department, board, commission, institution, bureau or any agency, division or unit within any office, department, board, commission or other state authority or any person requesting a state appropriation;
(b) "disaster" includes disasters designated at level II and above in the American national red cross regulations and procedures. See Kansas Statutes 75-5547
- Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
- Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.