§ 16-2-9.4 School district accounting compliance. – (a) The office of auditor general and the department of elementary and secondary education shall promulgate a uniform system of accounting, including a chart of accounts based on the recommendations of the advisory council on school finance, and require all accounts of the school districts, regional school districts, state schools and charter schools to be kept in accordance therewith; provided, that in any case in which the uniform system of accounting is not practicable, the office of auditor general in conjunction with the department of elementary and secondary education shall determine the manner in which the accounts shall be kept.
(b) For the purpose of securing a uniform system of accounting and a chart of accounts the advisory council on school finances, as defined in § 16-2-9.2 may make such surveys of the operation of any school districts, regional school district, state school or charter school as they shall deem necessary.
(c) If any school district, regional school district, state school or charter school fails to install and maintain the uniform system of accounting, including a chart of accounts, or fails to keep its accounts and interdepartmental records, or refuses or neglects to make the reports and to furnish the information in accordance with the method prescribed by the office of auditor general and the department of education or hinders or prevents the examination of accounts and financial records, the auditor general and the commissioner of education may make a report to the board of regents for elementary and secondary education in writing, specifying the nature and extent of the failure, refusal, neglect, hindrance, or prevention, and the board of regents is hereby authorized and directed to review the matter so reported. If the regents shall find that failure, refusal, neglect, hindrance, or prevention exists and that the school district, regional school district, state school or charter school should properly comply in the matter so reported, the regents shall direct the school district, regional school district, state school or charter school, in writing, to so comply. If the failure, refusal, neglect, hindrance, or prevention shall continue for a period of ten (10) days following the written direction, the regents may withhold distribution of state aid to said school district, regional school district, state school or charter school.