§ 75-18. Laws to be delivered to successors in office.

Whenever any person is elected to fill any of the county or township offices, it shall be such person's duty, before taking possession of the office, to procure from the county clerk of his county a copy of the receipt filed by the outgoing officer for any volumes of the laws of this state.  A copy of the receipt shall be presented to his predecessor in office, at the time when he assumes the duties of his office, and shall require from his predecessor all the volumes of the laws which he may have received, as shown by the receipt on file with the county clerk.  It shall be the duty of said officer, after having received from his predecessor the volumes of the laws, to make out duplicate receipts of the same, one of said receipts to be given to his predecessor in office, and the other to be transmitted to the county clerk to be retained in his office.

R.L. 1910, § 8154; Laws 1983, c. 164, § 5, emerg. eff. June 6, 1983.