COMPILED CODE - Iowa Legislature - State of Iowa

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Tit. II, Ch. 4. AUDITOR OF STATE. §§ 117-132.
CHAPTER 3.
LAND OFFICE.
SECTION 117. Clerk for land department.
[Repealed by 39 G. A., ch. 209, § 1.]
CHAPTER 4.
AUDITOR OF STATE.
SECTION 118-al. Warrants for personal expense outside state.
1 The auditor of state shall not draw warrants upon any state funds
2 or other funds belonging to the public payable to any state officer,
3 commissioner, member of a state board, association, society, organiza-
4 tion or department except governor, attorney general, railroad com-
5 missioners and commerce counsel and those under the supervision of
6 the board of control or the board of education, in payment of any obli-
7 gation or expense created in attending conventions or other public
8 gatherings or conferences outside the limits of the state of Iowa, except
9 that before such warrant shall be issued a copy of a certificate of
10 authority issued by the secretary of the executive council showing
11 that such person or persons were authorized by the executive council
12 to create such expense shall have been filed in the office of the auditor
13 of state.
[39 G. A., ch. 221, § 1.]
SEC. 132. State examiners for counties—qualifications.
1 The auditor of state shall appoint not less than four nor more
2 than eight state examiners for counties, hereinafter referred to as
3 "examiners", who shall be suitable persons of recognized skill, famil-
4 iar with the system of accounting used in county offices, and versed
5 in the laws relating to county affairs, who shall, at all times, be sub-
6 ject to the control and under the direction and supervision of the
7 auditor of state.
8 Before entering upon the discharge of the duties of his office,
9 each examiner shall give a bond in the penal sum of two thousand
10 dollars conditioned as provided in section six hundred twelve of the
11 compiled code, the same to be approved and filed as are the bonds of
12 other state officers.
13 They shall hold office for a term of four years, and be subject to
14 removal for cause by the auditor of state.
15 The auditor of state shall appoint such additional clerks and
16 assistants as are needed, and shall fix a reasonable compensation
17 therefor.
18 Before the compensation or expenses of any examiner, clerk or
19 assistant, shall be paid, a detailed and itemized statement shall be
20 prepared by said examiner, and duly verified, which verification shall
21 aver that the account is just, reasonable, and wholly unpaid. Said
22 claims shall be approved by the auditor of state and afterwards pre-
23 sented and allowed by the state board of audit, and paid from any
24 funds in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated.
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