Payment of claims, procedure

(a) Subject to the provisions of K.S.A. 75-3731, and amendments thereto, the director of accounts and reports shall provide for the payment of accounts, bills, claims, funds and demands by issuing warrants drawn on the state treasurer or as an alternative, permissive method in the case of claims for salaries or wages, by utilizing procedures authorized by K.S.A. 75-5540, and amendments thereto. Except as authorized by subsection (c) and (d), the director of accounts and reports shall sign and the state treasurer shall cosign all such warrants for money before their delivery by the director of accounts and reports to the persons entitled thereto. Forms for such warrants shall be prescribed by the director of accounts and reports. The director of accounts and reports shall transmit to the state treasurer a duplicate copy of the director's record of all warrants issued by the director. (b) When the claim as shown to be due any individual payee on any voucher submitted by an agency is less than $5, no warrant shall be issued except as approved by the director of accounts and reports. Claims for amounts less than $5 shall be paid by an agency from the agency's imprest fund or petty cash fund under procedures prescribed by the director of accounts and reports or as otherwise prescribed by the director. (c) The director of accounts and reports may designate one or more persons to sign, on behalf of the director of accounts and reports, warrants which do not exceed $5,000 for the payment of prizes to the holders of valid winning lottery tickets or shares pursuant to K.S.A. 74-8712, and amendments thereto. (d) The secretary of administration and the state treasurer may agree, in writing, to establish funds transfers pursuant to article 4a of chapter 84 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated for various categories of payments. In addition to the paper warrants described in subsection (a), the term warrant or state warrant as used in state law, shall also include payments pursuant to any funds transfers authorized pursuant to this subsection.