§ 10.43 — Telephone Use; Approval
Plain-Language Summary
State legislators, constitutional officers, judges, and heads of state agencies must sign their monthly state-paid long-distance phone bills to approve them, unless the bill is less than $5. Officials are personally responsible for repaying any portion of phone bills that were not for state business. All state-paid long-distance phone bills are public information regardless of the amount.
10.43 TELEPHONE USE; APPROVAL.
(a) Each representative, senator, constitutional officer, judge, and head of a state department or agency shall sign the person’s monthly long-distance telephone bills paid by the state as evidence of the person’s approval of each bill. This signature requirement does not apply to a month in which the person’s long-distance phone bill paid by the state is less than $5.
(b) Even if the monthly long-distance phone bill paid by the state for a person subject to this section is less than $5, the person is responsible for paying that portion of the bill that does not relate to state business. As provided in section 10.46, long-distance telephone bills paid by the state are public data, regardless of the amount of the bills.
History:
1993 c 370 s 4; 2015 c 77 art 2 s 4
History: History: 1993 c 370 s 4; 2015 c 77 art 2 s 4