Montana Code 2-8-111. Prereview responsibilities of agencies
2-8-111. Prereview responsibilities of agencies. An agency designated for termination or whose program or programs are designated for termination shall, by 22 months preceding the date set for termination:
Terms Used In Montana Code 2-8-111
- Agency: means an office, position, commission, committee, board, department, council, division, bureau, section, or any other entity or instrumentality of the executive department of state government. See Montana Code 2-8-102
- Performance audit: means an examination of the effectiveness of administration and its efficiency and adequacy in terms of the program of a state agency authorized by law to be performed and the conformance of expenditures with legislative intent. See Montana Code 2-8-102
- Program: means any legislatively or administratively created function, project, or duty of an agency. See Montana Code 2-8-102
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Montana Code 1-1-201
(1)delineate the goals of the programs, which goals reflect the state‘s constitution, statutes, and authoritative judicial, legislative, and executive decisions or pronouncements;
(2)delineate the objectives of the programs and lay out, clearly enough to be tested, the logic in the assumptions linking expenditures to outcome anticipated, outcome anticipated to objectives, and objectives to impact on problems addressed in goals;
(3)furnish to the legislative auditor, upon request of the auditor, the information necessary to conduct a performance audit as required by this chapter.