Disbursing organizations shall meet the following conditions and/or requirements:
A. 
The disbursing organization shall provide evidence of satisfactory internal control, evidence of which shall be required by the Chief Financial Officer. Such evidence may be:
(1) 
The disbursing organization's Report on Policies and Procedures Placed in Operation and Tests of Operating Effectiveness, performed pursuant to AICPA (American Institute of Certified Public Accountants) Statement on Auditing Standards No. 70;
(2) 
A completed SysTrust examination with an unqualified report on Availability, Security, Integrity and Maintainability completed in accordance with AICPA/CICA (Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants) SysTrust Principles and Criteria for Systems Reliability; or
(3) 
Evidence of compliance with a mutually agreed upon external standard for determination of the sufficiency of a system of internal controls that support the work to be performed in accordance with the policies established by the local unit.
All disbursing organizations shall have offices within a distance acceptable to the Chief Financial Officer of the local unit such that the physical delivery and receipt of documents and records can occur in a manner that assures the delivery of paychecks on regularly scheduled paydays.