As used in KRS § 45A.295 to KRS § 45A.320:
(1) “State public purchasing unit” shall mean the Finance and Administration Cabinet and any other purchasing agency of this Commonwealth, including the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources;

Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 45A.295

  • City: includes town. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Foreign: when applied to a corporation, partnership, limited partnership, business trust, statutory trust, or limited liability company, includes all those incorporated or formed by authority of any other state. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • public funds: means sums actually received in cash or negotiable instruments from all sources unless otherwise described by any state agency, state- owned corporation, university, department, cabinet, fiduciary for the benefit of any form of state organization, authority, board, bureau, interstate compact, commission, committee, conference, council, office, or any other form of organization whether or not the money has ever been paid into the Treasury and whether or not the money is still in the Treasury if the money is controlled by any form of state organization, except for those funds the management of which is to be reported to the Legislative Research Commission pursuant to KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes territories, outlying possessions, and the District of Columbia. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010

(2) “Local public purchasing unit” shall mean any county, city, governmental entity and other subdivision of the Commonwealth or public agency thereof, public authority, public educational, health, or other institution, any other entity which expends public funds for the acquisition or leasing of supplies, services, and construction, and any nonprofit corporation operating a charitable hospital;
(3) “Public purchasing unit” shall mean either a local public purchasing unit or a state public purchasing unit;
(4) “Foreign purchasing activity” shall mean any buying organization not located in this Commonwealth which, if located in this Commonwealth, would qualify as a public purchasing unit. An agency of the United States government is a foreign purchasing activity; and
(5) “Cooperative purchasing” shall mean purchasing conducted by, or on behalf of, more than one (1) public purchasing unit, or by a public purchasing unit with a foreign purchasing activity.
Effective: March 29, 2023
History: Amended 2023 Ky. Acts ch. 139, sec. 3, effective March 29, 2023. — Created
1978 Ky. Acts ch. 110, sec. 59, effective January 1, 1980.