19-716. Claims and accounts; duties of county attorney or assistant or county counselor in certain counties.
19-716
19-716. Claims and accounts; duties of county attorney or assistant or
county counselor in
certain counties.
(a) The county attorney or an assistant
county attorney
of each county of the state which does not have a county auditor
and which has a population of less than
70,000 shall meet
with the board of county commissioners of such county at each session when
bills and accounts are presented for allowance, examine such bills and
accounts, ascertain, as far as possible, the correctness of such
accounts and give an opinion to the board of county commissioners as to
the liability of the county for
them. No bill shall be
allowed by the board of county commissioners until the county attorney has
passed upon it.
(b) If there is a county counselor of a county which is subject to
this section, the county counselor shall perform the duties imposed on the
county attorney by this section.
History: L. 1913, ch. 156; § 1; R.S. 1923, 19-716; L. 1968, ch.
254, § 2; L. 1972, ch. 74, § 1; L. 1984, ch. 99, § 2; July 1.