§ 46-04-16 — Officers to deliver volumes of laws to successors

Whenever any person is elected to fill any of the county, township, or district offices in this
state, such person, before taking possession of the office, shall procure from the county auditor
of that person's county a copy of the receipts filed with such auditor by the outgoing officer for
any volumes of the laws of this state. Such copy of the receipt must be exhibited by the person

so elected to that person's predecessor in office at the time the person assumes the duties of
office, and the person shall require from that predecessor all the volumes of laws which the
predecessor may have received as shown by such receipt. Such officer after having received
from the predecessor the volumes of laws shall make out duplicate receipts of the same, one of
which receipts the person shall give to the predecessor in office and the other of which the
person shall transmit forthwith to the county auditor of the county, who shall file the same in the
auditor's office.