§ 124:19 — Legislative Budget Assistant to Audit

The legislative budget assistant may enter into agreements or contracts with the federal government or its agencies for the purpose of conducting financial and compliance audits of programs funded in whole or in part by the federal government and carried out by agencies of the state or entities expending state or federal funds. The authority of the legislative budget assistant to conduct or contract for audits on non-state agencies shall be limited to 5 entities in a 5-year period. The legislative budget assistant may conduct said audits or may contract with another auditor who shall conduct said audit under the direction and authority of the legislative budget assistant. All costs of such audits, direct or indirect, shall be a charge against the separate account maintained by the commissioner of administrative services of the funds set aside for the purpose, and the same are hereby continually appropriated.

Legislative History

1983, 469:84. 1985, 399:3, I. 2006, 79:3, eff. July 1, 2007.