Printable Format10-1117. Clerk or secretary; record of moneys; contracts and indebtedness of municipality; records of orders, warrant checks; exhibition of records upon request; notice. The clerk or secretary of every municipality shall keep a record of the amount of money in the treasury and each particular fund and shall keep a record of all indebtedness and contracts creating a liability against the municipality. In such records there shall be shown the date of the making of the contract or the creation of the debt, the amount of the contract or debt, the time payable, and the particular fund from which payment is to be made. Such clerk or secretary shall also keep a record of each order, warrant check or check, drawn on the treasury and paid, giving the date of payment. Such clerk or secretary shall, upon the request of any person, exhibit such records to such person and any person contracting with the municipality shall be chargeable with knowledge of what such records contain.
History: L. 1933, ch. 319, § 17; L. 1973, ch. 54, § 1; L. 1974, ch. 48, § 1; July 1.
Law Review and Bar Journal References:
Budget law provisions discussed, Fred E. Gulick, 14 J.B.A.K. 100, 103 (1945).
Attorney General's Opinions:
Kansas public records law; access to salaries of city employees. 81-267.
Cash-basis law; public records. 82-177.
County clerks; records and accounts; cash-basis law; payment of claims act. 83-149.
CASE ANNOTATIONS
1. Purpose of act discussed; applies to statutory claims. Shouse v. Cherokee County Comm'rs, 151 Kan. 458, 461, 462, 99 P.2d 779. Affirmed: 152 Kan. 41, 102 P.2d 1043.
2. Whether lease-purchase agreement executed by municipality which violates cash-basis law (K.S.A. 10-1101 et seq.) is void examined. U.S.D. No. 207 v. Northland Nat'l Bank, 20 Kan. App. 2d 321, 326, 887 P.2d 1138 (1994).