19-2687.   Inventory and record of county property; duty of officers;delegation of commissioners' duties authorized.For the purpose of preserving records of the amount and kind of personalproperty owned by each county in this state, each county officer and headof a department or office of each county shall make a personalinvestigation, inspection and inventory of the kind, amount and location ofall personal property owned by said county and located in or under thesupervision of such office or department. The inventory shall show asufficient identifying description of each item of personal property, shallbe taken during the month of December in each year and shall be completedand a copy thereof filed with the county clerk on or before December 31 ofeach year. Such inventory shall not include the books, records, files,stationery, writing material and blank legal papers contained in thevarious county offices.

      All information contained in such inventory shall also be recorded in abook kept for that purpose by the county clerk and during the month ofFebruary, following the filing of such inventories, the board of countycommissioners shall view and check each item of personal property in eachrespective office or department with the inventory book prepared by thecounty clerk and enter a record of its findings and sign a certificate ofthe board's approval with reference thereto in the inventory record bookprepared by the county clerk. The board of county commissioners maydelegate the performance of the above duties, and the county commissionersor their delegate may perform such duties at any time during the yearfollowing the filing of such inventories. Thereafter, there shall be addedto such inventory a description of the same kind and character of everyarticle of personal property purchased or sold by said county, whichaddition shall show the date of the acquisition or sale of all suchpersonal property.

      History:   L. 1975, ch. 166, § 1; July 1.