Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 75-3024

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Embezzlement: In most states, embezzlement is defined as theft/larceny of assets (money or property) by a person in a position of trust or responsibility over those assets. Embezzlement typically occurs in the employment and corporate settings. Source: OCC
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201

Where an appropriation shall be made as a contingent fund for any office or officer, or any other purpose, to be expended for the state, the officer or person having charge of such fund shall keep an account therewith showing when, to whom, and for what purpose any portion of said fund has been expended; and if any officer or person shall take or present any voucher for a greater sum of money than was actually paid or expended for the purpose stated or indicated in or by such voucher, he or she shall be deemed guilty of embezzlement of the amount so falsely included in such voucher in excess of the sum actually paid or expended.