§ 30-10-711 — Payment of warrants - call published

(1) County orders and
warrants, properly made and issued, shall be entitled to a preference as to
payment, according to the order of time in which they may be presented to the
county treasurer; but where two or more orders are presented at the same time,
precedence shall be given to the order or warrant of the oldest date, and when two
or more orders are presented at the same time, and there are no funds to the credit
of the proper fund in the treasury to pay the same, the same shall be registered in
the order of their date, precedence being given to the warrant of the oldest date.
When there is in the treasury, to the credit of any fund, five hundred dollars or more,
against which fund there are any outstanding and unpaid lawful warrants or orders,
the county treasurer shall immediately give public notice of the fact by a written
notice posted for thirty days at the outer door of the office of the treasurer. The
treasurer, at the same time, shall call in for payment all outstanding and unpaid
lawful warrants and orders drawn on said fund which the moneys in the treasury
will pay and which are entitled to payment from said funds.

(2) Such notice shall also contain the number, date, and amount of such
warrants and orders as are entitled to payment and call upon the holders thereof to
present the same for payment to the treasurer within thirty days from the day of the
posting of said notice, and that interest on the sums due by said warrants and
orders will cease to accrue thereon after the last day of said posting of said notice,
and interest shall cease to accrue on said sums accordingly. Such notice shall be
dated at the county seat, be signed by the treasurer, and a record of the same be
kept in the office of the treasurer in a book provided for that purpose; and such
books shall be open to inspection and examination at all reasonable hours. Such
funds shall be held by the county treasurer for the payment of the warrants and
orders called by him, until the expiration of six years from the date of registry of
such warrants and orders, when the same shall be paid out upon such other
warrants or orders as are entitled to payment on the day of the expiration of the six
years.

(3) The treasurer shall pay by electronic transfer any written authorization
issued by the board of county commissioners directing the treasurer to make
payment of claims against the county electronically.

(4) Payment of county warrants and orders by electronic transfer shall be
made only after the treasurer approves the release of funds for such electronic
transfer.

(5) Repealed.

Legislative History

Source: G.L. � 533. G.S. � 637. L. 1887: p. 243, � 4. R.S. 08: � 1325. C.L. � 8800. CSA: C. 45, � 147. CRS 53: � 35-7-11. C.R.S. 1963: � 35-7-11. L. 96: Entire section amended, p. 563, � 25, effective April 24. L. 98: (3) to (5) added, p. 149, � 2, effective April 2. L. 2025: (5) repealed, (SB 25-275), ch. 377, p. 2109, � 336, effective August 6.