<br><br>68.250 Form of budget -- State local finance officer to regulate -- Approval of <br>budget. <br>(1) The state local finance officer shall have full power and authority to supervise and <br>direct the form and classifications of all county budgets. He shall approve all budget <br>forms and classifications and may change any form or classification submitted to <br>him before making such approval. The county judge/executive shall use the form <br>furnished or approved by the state local finance officer and shall not make any <br>changes therein or use any other form, unless authorized by the state local finance <br>officer. <br>(2) Not less than twenty (20) days before the time for adoption of the county budget the <br>county judge/executive shall transmit two (2) copies of the proposed budget <br>including statements of both anticipated receipts and expenditures by budget funds, <br>to the state local finance officer for approval as to form and classification. <br>(3) If the state local finance officer finds that the proposed budget is uniform with the <br>budgets of other counties of the same class in classification of units and conforms to <br>the budget laws, he shall approve the classification, return the original copy to the <br>county judge/executive and retain the duplicate copy as part of his records. If the <br>proposed budget is not uniform with the budgets of other counties in classification <br>of units he shall make such changes as he deems necessary for the purpose of <br>establishing uniformity. <br>(4) If the proposed budget fails to comply with any requirements of law, the state local <br>finance officer shall so notify the county judge/executive, and may refuse to <br>approve the budget until the county judge/executive authorizes him to make such <br>changes as he deems to be required by law. <br>Effective: July 15, 1980 <br>History: Amended 1980 Ky. Acts ch. 19, sec. 4, effective July 15, 1980. -- Recodified <br>1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. secs. 938q-<br>13, 1851c-4. <br><br>