Section 9-14-17 - Records maintained by appointed financial official--Warrants on treasury--Expenseestimates, contracts and certificates of work--Destruction of records.
9-14-17. Records maintained by appointed financial official--Warrants on treasury--Expense estimates, contracts and certificates of work--Destruction of records. The appointed financial official shall keep an office at such place as the governing body may direct, keep the corporate seal, all papers, and records of the municipality, and a record of the proceedings of the governing body, whose meetings such official shall attend. Such official shall draw and countersign all warrants on the treasury in pursuance of orders or resolutions of the governing body and keep a full and accurate account thereof in books provided for that purpose. Such official shall make or cause to be made estimates of the expenses of any work to be done by the municipality, countersign all contracts made on its behalf and certificates of work authorized by any committee of the governing body or by any municipal officer. However, the official may destroy any record which the records destruction board, acting pursuant to § 1-27-19, declares to have no further administrative, legal, fiscal, research, or historical value.
Source: PolC 1877, ch 24, § 40; CL 1887, § 1065; SL 1890, ch 37, art VII, §§ 1 to 3; RPolC 1903, §§ 1244, 1246, 1454; SL 1913, ch 119, §§ 65, 67; RC 1919, §§ 6285, 6287; SDC 1939, § 45.1119; SL 1959, ch 268; SL 1981, ch 45, § 8; SL 1995, ch 45, § 4.