58.1-3145 - How treasurer may secure final discharge from liability.
§ 58.1-3145. How treasurer may secure final discharge from liability.
Any treasurer or, if he has died, his personal representative, at any timeafter the expiration of his term shall produce before the circuit court ofthe county or city of which he is treasurer the respective certificates ofthe Comptroller, of the governing body of such county or city and of theschool board of such county or city. These certificates shall show the finalsettlement of his account as treasurer and the proper accounting for andturning over of all the moneys or other property, including the tax ticketsfor the current year, that had or should have come into his hands as suchtreasurer during the term and the receipt of his successor in office,provided for in § 58.1-3138. The court shall then enter an order requiringthe clerk of the court to publish, once a week, for four successive weeks, insome newspaper to be designated in the order and by posting at the front doorof the courthouse of the county or city, a notice that such treasurer will,on the day to be named in the order, move the court to enter an order offinal discharge to such treasurer. These provisions shall not apply totreasurers who retain their office at the end of the term.
(Code 1950, § 58-933; 1984, c. 675.)