Title 7, COUNTIES

Any warrant holder who fails to present a warrant to the treasurer within thirty days after the treasurer has mailed written notice to the holder, addressed to the holder's last known address, loses the right to payment pursuant to § 7-22-12 . No holder of a registered warrant is…

All interest payments shall be endorsed by the treasurer on the back of the warrant and the warrant holder shall execute and deliver duplicate receipts for such payment to the treasurer who shall retain one and deliver the other forthwith to the county auditor. All registered war…

All registered warrants shall be paid in the order of registration and the treasurer, as soon as money sufficient for the payment of the warrants is received to the credit of the particular fund upon which the warrants are drawn, shall immediately notify by mail the persons in wh…

No county treasurer may either directly or indirectly contract for or purchase any warrant issued by the county for which the treasurer receives any discount whatever upon the sum due on the warrant. If the treasurer contracts for or purchases any warrant, the treasurer is not al…

The board of county commissioners may, by resolution, cancel any check or warrant that has not been presented for payment at any time within two years of the date on which the check or warrant was issued. Upon such resolution the county auditor shall note the cancellation in the …

Notwithstanding any provision for cancellation of checks or warrants, the board of county commissioners shall direct the payment of any properly issued check or warrant to any person entitled to payment thereof within a period of six years from date of issue thereof and may direc…

No claim against the county shall be paid otherwise than upon the allowance of the county commissioners upon the warrant of the county auditor, except one authorized to be allowed by some other person or tribunal, in which case the claim shall be paid upon the warrant of the coun…

No public money shall be disbursed by the county commissioners or any of them, but the same shall be disbursed by the county treasurer upon the warrant of the county auditor specifying the name of the party entitled to the same, on what account, and upon whose allowance, if not f…

All such warrants shall be progressively numbered, and the numbers, date, and amount of each, and the name of the person to whom payable, and the purpose for which drawn, shall at the time of issuing the same be entered in a book kept by the auditor for that purpose. Source: SL 1…

All warrants upon the treasurer of any county shall be paid out of the fund on which they are drawn in the order of their presentation. Source: SL 1874-5, ch 74 , § 1; PolC 1877, ch 50, § 1; CL 1887, § 1671; RPolC 1903, § 2251; SL 1913, ch 359 ; RC 1919, § 6973; SDC 1939, § 12.08…

Every warrant for the payment of money issued by any county, which is not registered because of lack of funds with which to pay such warrant, shall be countersigned by the county treasurer, who shall also endorse on such warrant an order to the depository, by which such warrant i…

The treasurer of each organized county shall keep a warrant register which register shall show in a column arranged for that purpose the number, date, and amount of each warrant presented, the particular fund upon which the warrant is drawn, the date of presentation, the name and…

If any warrant is presented to the treasurer for payment and no funds in the treasury have been appropriated for that purpose, the treasurer shall enter the warrant in the warrant register for payment in the order of presentation. The treasurer shall endorse on the warrant the re…