16.51 Department of administration; preauditing and accounting; additional duties and powers. The department of administration in the discharge of preauditing and accounting functions shall:

(1) Suggest improvements. Suggest plans for the improvement and management of the public revenues and expenditures.

(4) Direct collection of moneys. Except as otherwise provided by law, direct and superintend the collection of all moneys due the state.

(5) Keep and state accounts. Keep and state all accounts in which the state is interested as provided in s. 16.52.

(6) Audit claims. Examine, determine and audit, according to law, the claims of all persons against the state as provided in s. 16.53.

(7) Audit claims for expenses in connection with prisoners and juveniles in juvenile correctional facilities. Receive, examine, determine, and audit claims, duly certified and approved by the department of corrections, from the county clerk of any county in behalf of the county, which are presented for payment to reimburse the county for certain expenses incurred or paid by it in reference to all matters growing out of actions and proceedings involving prisoners in state prisons, as defined in s. 302.01, or juveniles in juvenile correctional facilities, as defined in s. 938.02 (10p), including prisoners or juveniles transferred to a mental health institute for observation or treatment, when the proceedings are commenced in counties in which the prisons or juvenile correctional facilities are located by a district attorney or by the prisoner or juvenile as a postconviction remedy or a matter involving the prisoner's status as a prisoner or the juvenile's status as a resident of a juvenile correctional facility and for certain expenses incurred or paid by it in reference to holding those juveniles in secure custody while those actions or proceedings are pending. Expenses shall only include the amounts that were necessarily incurred and actually paid and shall be no more than the legitimate cost would be to any other county had the offense or crime occurred therein.

History: 1971 c. 125; 1977 c. 418; 1979 c. 221; 1985 a. 29; 1989 a. 31; 1995 a. 27, 77; 1997 a. 35; 2005 a. 344.