Michigan § 18.427 - Expenditure of funds by grantee.

(1) A grantee shall expend funds from a grant award only as follows:

(a) To provide criminal justice in-service training that is designed and intended to enhance the direct delivery of criminal justice services by employees of the grantee or by employees of other grantees.

(b) To provide criminal justice in-service training presented by a grantee or by a contractual service provider retained by a grantee.

(c) To pay the actual cost of criminal justice in-service training materials necessary to, and used during, the direct delivery of criminal justice in-service training.

(d) To pay the reasonable rental cost or purchase price of equipment necessary to, and used solely during, the direct delivery of criminal justice in-service training.

(e) To pay the reasonable hourly salaries of instructors and developers for actual time spent developing, preparing, and delivering criminal justice in-service training.

(2) A grantee shall not expend funds from a grant award for any of the following:

(a) Travel expenditures in excess of the expenditure rates authorized for members of the state classified civil service.

(b) Travel costs incurred to participate in a criminal justice in-service training program, unless the program is solely for criminal justice in-service training for which the expenditure of grant funds is authorized under this act.

(c) Alcoholic liquor.

(d) Expenditures related to criminal justice in-service training courses for which grant funding has not been approved.

(e) Expenditures for goods and activities not related to criminal justice in-service training.

(3) If the commission determines that a grantee has expended grant award funds in violation of this act, the commission may do either of the following:

(a) Declare the grantee ineligible to receive further grant awards for a period to be determined by the commission.

(b) Terminate 1 or more grant awards, and require the grantee to immediately return grant award funds expended in violation of this act, in a manner prescribed by the commission. Funds returned as provided in this subdivision shall be segregated and shall be used only for the reasonable expenses of providing staff services to the commission for administering and enforcing the statutory requirements of this act and administering and enforcing the statutory requirements of the Michigan commission on law enforcement standards act, 1965 PA 203, MCL 28.601 to 28.615, or for grant awards.

(4) If a grantee is no longer operating, the unit of government with which it is affiliated, or any other constituent or successor entity of the grantee, shall immediately provide the commission with a final accounting of all expenses incurred for criminal justice in-service training that was delivered, and the commission shall terminate all current grant awards.