Warrants
5-12-104. Warrants to bear six percent.
County orders and warrants, town and city and school orders and warrants, and other like evidences or certificates of municipal indebtedness, shall bear interest at the rate of six percent per annum from the date of the presentation thereof for payment at the treasury where the same may be payable, until there is money in the treasury for the payment thereof, except when otherwise specially provided by law. Every county treasurer, town treasurer, and city treasurer to whom any such county, town, city, or school order or warrant is presented for payment, and who shall not have on hand the funds to pay the same, shall endorse thereon the rate of interest said order or warrant will draw, and the date of such presentation, and subscribe such endorsement with his official signature; however, all such orders and warrants may be made to bear a lower rate of interest than above specified, by special agreement between such counties, towns, and cities issuing the same, and the person to whom such orders or warrants are issued.
22-40-104. County treasurer – accounts – warrants.
(1) (a) It is the duty of the county treasurer to keep separate accounts by funds and subsidiary accounts for the bond redemption fund of each school district in his or her county, and said funds and accounts shall be subject to the warrants of said district. The tax revenues shall be credited to the proper fund and account, together with any penalty interest collected thereon.
(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (a) of this subsection (1), upon receipt of a notice from the state treasurer issued pursuant to section 22-41-110 (3), a county treasurer shall withhold from the school district named in the notice and forward to the state treasurer the amount of tax revenues specified in the notice that would otherwise be credited to the school district.
(2) If only a portion of a school district is situate within the territorial limits of said county and the headquarters of said school district are not located therein, the county treasurer shall transfer, at the end of each month, all moneys which have accrued to the credit of said district to the county treasurer of the county wherein the headquarters of said school district is located. No warrant shall be drawn by a school district situate in more than one county against its moneys except against those moneys in the custody of the county treasurer of the county wherein the school district headquarters is located.
(3) Except in the case of a school district which has elected to withdraw its moneys, if a school district warrant is presented to the county treasurer of a school district situate in his county and there are no moneys or insufficient moneys to the credit of said school district in the proper fund or account thereof to pay such warrant, it is the duty of said county treasurer to register such warrants in the order of presentment and endorse each such warrant “no funds”. Registered warrants shall draw interest from the date of such registration and endorsement at the rate and in the manner as registered county warrants. The county treasurer shall keep a list of all warrants so registered and endorsed and furnish a copy of said list to the treasurer of said school district. The county treasurer shall pay both the principal and interest of said warrants, in the order of registration, when there are sufficient moneys to the credit of the school district fund or account upon which any such warrant was drawn. It is his duty to cause to be published in a newspaper with general distribution in said school district for five days a notice that certain school district warrants, describing said warrants by numbers and amounts, will be paid upon presentation at the expiration of said five days notice, at which time said warrants shall cease to bear interest.
(4) It is unlawful for a school district to issue warrants in excess of the amount budgeted or appropriated to or the anticipated revenues for any fund, whichever is less, for said school district’s fiscal year whether or not the board of education of said district has elected to withdraw its moneys from the custody of the county treasurer.
(5) It is the duty of the county treasurer to cancel all paid school district warrants with a proper cancelling stamp and indicate the date of payment thereof.
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) For purposes of this part 7, “order” means all orders and authorizations issued by the board of county commissioners for the payment of claims against the county. “Order” includes any warrant issued by the board of county commissioners and any written authorization issued by the board of county commissioners directing the treasurer to make payment of claims against the county by electronic transfer.