CHAPTER 10
House Bill No. 2082
An Act concerning counties; allowing counties to create a code inspection and enforcement fund and expanding the county equipment reserve fund to include electronic technology; allowing counties to create a municipalities fight addiction fund for the expenditure of opioid settlement moneys received pursuant to the Kansas fights addiction act; amending K.S.A. 19-119 and repealing the existing section.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
New Section 1. (a) The board of county commissioners of any county may provide, by adoption of a resolution, for a code inspection and enforcement fund to finance the operations, equipment and capital needs for authorized functions of such department, including, but not limited to, building, construction, land, water and gas application, inspection, testing and permitting. Such expenses may be supported with charges assessed to building users based on a schedule of fees to be approved and transferred to such fund from any source that may be lawfully utilized for such purposes, including the county general fund.
(b) Expenditures from the fund shall be subject to the budget requirements of K.S.A. 79-2925 through 79-2937, and amendments thereto.
New Sec. 2. (a) The board of county commissioners of any county may provide, by adoption of a resolution, for a municipalities fight addiction fund to finance expenditures incurred as described in K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 75-777, and amendments thereto.
(b) Expenditures from the fund shall be subject to the budget requirements of K.S.A. 79-2925 through 79-2937, and amendments thereto.
(c) The provisions of this section shall be a part of and supplemental to the Kansas fights addiction act, K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 75-775 et seq., and amendments thereto.
Sec. 3. K.S.A. 19-119 is hereby amended to read as follows: 19-119. (a) The board of county commissioners of any county may provide, by adoption of a resolution, for a county equipment and technology reserve fund to finance the acquisition of equipment and technology. Moneys may be budgeted and transferred to such fund from any source which that may be lawfully utilized for such purposes, including equipment use charges on the various departments and agencies of the county to finance new and replacement equipment and technology.
(b) For the purposes of this act, equipment and technology shall include machinery, vehicles and any other equipment or personal property including, but not limited to, computer hardware and software, which the county is authorized to purchase for municipal purposes supplies and technology expenses, including cloud technology costs.
(b)(c) Moneys credited to such fund from annually budgeted transfers shall not thereafter be subject to the provisions of K.S.A. 79-2925 to 79-2937, inclusive, and amendments thereto. In making the budgets of such county, the amounts credited to, and the amount on hand in, such equipment reserve fund and the amount expended therefrom shall be shown thereon for the information of the taxpayers of such county. Moneys in such fund may be invested in accordance with the provisions of K.S.A. 10-131, and amendments thereto, with interest thereon credited to such fund.
(c)(d) If the board of county commissioners determines that money which that has been credited to such fund or any part thereof is not needed for the purposes for which so such moneys have been budgeted or transferred, the board may transfer, by adoption of a resolution, such amount not needed to the fund from which it came and such retransfer and expenditure thereof shall be subject to the budget requirement provisions of K.S.A. 79-2925 to through 79-2937, inclusive, and amendments thereto.
Sec. 4. K.S.A. 19-119 is hereby repealed.
Sec. 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the statute book.
Approved April 7, 2023.
