§ 19-333. Record of orders and decisions - Commissioner not serving another term - Duties.

A.  The board of county commissioners shall keep a book in which all orders and decisions made by them shall be recorded, except those relating solely to roads and bridges as required by Section 334 of this title.  All orders for the allowance of money from the county treasury shall state on what account and to whom the allowance is made, dating the same and numbering them consecutively from the first day of January to the thirty-first day of December, inclusive, in each year.

B.  Any county commissioner who fails to file for reelection or is defeated in any primary or general election or by any other manner it is impossible for the commissioner to serve another term in office, shall not acquire, purchase, contract for or dispose of any machinery or equipment, or expend or approve for expenditure any monies for any purpose other than normal or routine operating expenditures except as provided in this section.  It shall be the mandatory duty of the commissioner to execute payment and to pay all outstanding obligations of the county incurred by the commissioner, or on behalf of the commissioner by the board of county commissioners, prior to the expiration of the term of office of the commissioner.  However, in the case of lease-purchase contracts, rental, lease or other payments extending beyond the term of office of the commissioner it shall be the mandatory duty of the commissioner to execute and to make such payments current as of the date of expiration of the term of office of the commissioner.  The commissioner shall be liable both personally and on the official bond of the commissioner for any violation of the mandatory duties herein imposed.

R.L. 1910, § 1594.  Amended by Laws 1953, p. 80, § 1; Laws 1965, c. 387, § 1, emerg. eff. June 30, 1965; Laws 1996, c. 65, § 1, emerg. eff. April 9, 1996.