Amendments for HB17-1030
Senate Journal, February 10
After consideration on the merits, the Committee recommends that HB17-1030 be
amended as follows, and as so amended, be referred to the Committee of the Whole with
favorable recommendation and with a recommendation that it be placed on the Consent
Calendar.
Amend reengrossed bill, page 12, strike lines 14 through 24 and
substitute "(4) and (6); and repeal (1), (3), and (5) as follows:
37-42-128. Collection of assessments. (1) The county treasurer
of the county wherein the office of an irrigation district is located shall
be and is hereby constituted ex officio district treasurer of such irrigation
district and shall be liable upon his official bond and to indictment and
criminal prosecution for malfeasance, misfeasance, or failure to perform
any duty prescribed in this article, either as county treasurer or as district
treasurer, as is provided by law in like or other cases as county treasurer.
Said treasurer shall collect, receive, and receipt for all moneys belonging
to the district.".
Page 13, strike lines 9 through 17 and substitute "the person tendering
the same owes. Payment of irrigation district assessments shall be
receipted for upon the same receipt required in the collection of general
real estate taxes, but, in the case of payment of only general tax or
irrigation district assessment and the nonpayment of the other, such
nonpayment shall be clearly indicated upon such receipt so issued, and
the payment of the one shall in no way affect the lien or obligation of the
unpaid tax or assessment, but each shall exist and be enforceable
separately.".
Page 13, strike lines 20 through 27.
Page 14, strike lines 1 through 24 and substitute "county in which the
office of said district is located, on the first Monday of each month, shall
remit to the district treasurer all moneys, warrants, coupons, or bonds
theretofore MONEY collected or received by him OR HER on account of
said THE district. Every county treasurer shall keep a general fund
account, a bond fund account, and, in the case of a contract with the
United States, a United States contract fund account. In the bond fund
account shall be placed all moneys received from taxation for the
payment of bonds and the interest thereon. In the United States contract
fund account shall be placed all moneys received for payments due or to
become due the United States under any contract between the district and
the United States.
(5) All other district moneys from whatever sources shall be
placed in the general fund, and the three funds kept separate at all times.
The district treasurer shall pay out of said bond and United States
contract fund, when due, the interest and principal of the bonds of said
district, at the time and place specified in said bonds, or all payments due
to the United States under any contract between the district and the
United States, at the time and in the manner provided in said contract,
and shall pay out of the general fund only upon warrants signed by the
person duly authorized by the board of directors of said district. as
provided in this section.".
Page 15, line 1, strike "respective funds," and substitute "respective funds
DISTRICT ACCOUNTS,".
Page 15, line 2, strike "RESPECTIVE FUNDS" and substitute "DISTRICT
ACCOUNTS".
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