69.3 - POSSESSION OF OFFICE.
69.3 POSSESSION OF OFFICE.
When a vacancy occurs in a public office, possession shall be
taken of the office room, books, papers, and all things pertaining to
the office, to be held until the qualification of a successor, as
follows:
1. Of the office of the county auditor, by the county treasurer.
2. Of the county treasurer, by the county auditor.
3. Of any of the state officers, by the governor, or, in the
absence or inability of the governor at the time of the occurrence,
as follows:
a. Of the secretary of state, by the treasurer of state.
b. Of the auditor of state, by the secretary of state.
c. Of the treasurer of state, by the secretary of state and
auditor of state, who shall make an inventory of the money and
warrants in the office, sign the inventory, and transmit it to the
governor, and the secretary of state shall take the keys of the safe
and desks, after depositing the books, papers, money and warrants in
them, and the auditor of state shall take the key to the office room.
Section History: Early Form
[C51, § 444; R60, § 671; C73, § 788; C97, § 1267; C24, 27, 31, 35,
39, § 1147; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §
69.3] Section History: Recent Form
83 Acts, ch 186, § 10034; 86 Acts, ch 1237, § 3
Referred to in § 331.502