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<section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="8-401" title_number="8" title_name="Compensation of Employees Subject to Salary Authority of Secretary of Budget and Management" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Prohibited Acts and Penalties">
  <text>Subject to the approval of the Governor, the Secretary may adopt regulations that prohibit a State officer from paying an employee in the State Personnel Management System any wages unless:</text>
  <level label="1">
    <text>the officer has a payroll authorization from the Secretary that lists:</text>
    <level label="i">
      <text>the name of that employee;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="ii">
      <text>the amount to be paid to that employee; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="iii">
      <text>the services for which payment is to be paid; and</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="2">
    <text>the head of a principal unit certifies in each payroll for that unit that the employees named in the payroll have been lawfully employed during the pay period and are entitled to the compensation authorized by the Secretary.</text>
  </level>
</section>
