CHAPTER 526

An Act to amend and reenact § 58-951 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to disbursement of funds by treasurers. CH 519]

Approved March 31, 1960

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

Hi 1 That § 58-951 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
ollows:

§ 58-951. Money deposited under the provisions of this article shall
be disbursed only upon checks signed by the county treasurer and drawn
in payment of lawfully issued and properly drawn orders or warrants and
lawfully issued and properly drawn and matured bonds, notes or other
obligations of the county, for the payment of which funds are available;
provided, however, that:

(1) This section shall not be construed as preventing any county
treasurer from transferring, by check, money from one approved deposi-
tory to another, or from settling with the Commonwealth without an order
from the board of supervisors or other governing body of his county, for
State revenues or other items collected and remittable by him to the State
Treasurer or from paying to the State Treasurer without an order from
the board of supervisors or other governing body of his county, any amount
or amounts pursuant to provisions of law; _

(2) Any board of supervisors or other governing body desiring to
do so may require the checks issued pursuant to the provisions of this
section to be countersigned and appoint such person or persons as it may
desire for the purpose;

(3) This section shall not be construed as imposing upon any deposi-
tory any obligation to determine whether any check issued pursuant to
the provisions of this section was issued for any purpose or purposes other
than those specified herein or as imposing any liability upon any such
depository for paying any check so issued; and

(4) The treasurer may, with the approval of the board of super-
visors or other governing body, by resolution entered of record on the
minute book of the board, designate one or more of his deputies who shall
have authority to sign any such checks whenever the necessity therefor
shall arise by reason of the sickness or unavoidable absence of the treas-
urer or his inability to sign such checks for any other reason.

2. An emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.