Printable Format10-1114. Clerks not to issue or sign orders. Unless otherwise provided in this act, it shall be unlawful after May 1, 1933, for the clerk or secretary of any governing body of any municipality to knowingly issue, attest, sign or countersign any order, warrant, check or other evidence of indebtedness, on the treasury of the municipality, in payment of any indebtedness of such municipality created by the governing body of such municipality in excess of the amount of funds actually on hand in the treasury of such municipality at the time for such purpose.
History: L. 1933, ch. 319, ยง 14; March 31.
CASE ANNOTATIONS
1. Inapplicable to warrants issued under K.S.A. 19-1503, 19-1504 and 19-1505. State, ex rel., v. Republic County Comm'rs, 148 Kan. 376, 378, 381, 82 P.2d 84.
2. Purpose of act discussed; applies to statutory claims. Shouse v. Cherokee County Comm'rs, 151 Kan. 458, 461, 462, 464, 466, 99 P.2d 779. Affirmed: 152 Kan. 41, 102 P.2d 1043.
3. Township's lease purchase contract for road machinery held invalid hereunder. J. D. Adams Co. v. Dor Township, 153 Kan. 623, 624, 625, 626, 627, 628, 631, 632, 113 P.2d 138.