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47-433. Livestock brand emergency revolving fund; use; employment of personnel; compensation. The livestock brand emergency revolving fund may be used to provide for the compensation, subsistence and travel of emergency livestock brand inspectors and other necessary temporary employees and to provide for such transactions which demand immediate attention. Emergency livestock brand inspectors and other needed personnel may be employed by the animal health commissioner, Kansas department of agriculture division of animal health or by the assistant commissioner in charge of brands, on a temporary basis for services in the establishment of the ownership of livestock which may have been mingled as a result of sudden or extreme storm conditions or other unforeseen occurrences. Personnel employed under this act shall be in the unclassified service and shall be exempt from the provisions of subsection (b) of K.S.A. 75-2935, and amendments thereto, requirements of the civil service law and processing by the division of personnel services of the department of administration. Such revolving fund shall not be used to pay any regular employees, or for current accounts, which are payable monthly. Advanced payments may be made from such revolving fund by the commissioner or assistant commissioner for subsistence and travel of employees and for other necessary emergency purposes when deemed necessary.  A settlement, based on an approved accounting for any advance payments, shall be completed prior to the certification to the director of accounts and reports for payment of any compensation earned. The assistant commissioner shall comply with supplemental procedures as the controller may require, but payments for services, subsistence and travel from the livestock brand emergency revolving fund shall be made by voucher method, showing periods of time worked.

History: L. 1959, ch. 25, § 2; L. 1972, ch. 199, § 1; L. 1978, ch. 345, § 8; L. 2012, ch. 140, § 23; July 1.



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