Section 9-14-18 - Financial records maintained by appointed financial official--Signature of evidencesof indebtedness--Destruction of records.
9-14-18. Financial records maintained by appointed financial official--Signature of evidences of indebtedness--Destruction of records. The appointed financial official shall keep regular books of account in which shall be entered all indebtedness of the municipality, and which shall at all times show the financial condition of the municipality, the amount of bonds, warrants, certificates, or other evidences of indebtedness issued by the governing body, and the amounts of all bonds, warrants, certificates, or other evidences of indebtedness which have been redeemed and the amount of each outstanding.
The official shall countersign all bonds, warrants, or other evidences of indebtedness of the municipality and keep accurate accounts thereof, stating to whom and for what purpose issued and the amount thereof. The official shall keep an account with all receiving and disbursing officers of the municipality, showing the amount received from the different sources of revenue and the amount which was disbursed under the direction of the governing body. 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: SL 1890, ch 37, art VII, § 3; RPolC 1903, § 1246; SL 1913, ch 119, § 67; RC 1919, § 6287; SDC 1939, § 45.1119; SL 1959, ch 268; SL 1981, ch 45, § 9; SL 1995, ch 45, § 5.