354.190 - Payment of county debts; reallowance of claims; limitation of claims after original allowance.
354.190 Payment of county debts; reallowance of claims; limitation of claims after original allowance.
1. When there shall be in the general, contingent, indigent sick or road fund of a county any sum of money which has been in the fund for the term of 2 years or more by reason of the failure or neglect of the owner of such indebtedness to demand payment of the same, such sum of money shall be applied to the payment of the more recent indebtedness of the county payable out of such fund.
2. If the owner of such allowance shall demand such sum of money within 6 years from the date of the original allowance of such sum of money, and after such sum of money has been so applied, the board of county commissioners may again allow the demand for the amount originally allowed, without interest, and no more, and any such demand so reallowed shall be paid in the order of its reallowance out of the fund originally accountable therefor, if such fund exists. If no such fund exists at the time, then such demand shall be paid in the order of its reallowance out of the county general fund.
3. Should the payment of such sum of money not be demanded within 6 years from and after the original allowance of such demand, then such indebtedness shall not be reallowed by the board of county commissioners and the payment thereof shall be forever barred.
4. Nothing in this section shall be so construed as to affect or repeal any law providing for the redemption or funding of the indebtedness of any county.
[1:15:1881; BH § 2018; C § 2171; RL § 1536; NCL § 1969]