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GOVERNMENT - STATE

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HOUSE BILL 03-1069 [Digest]

BY REPRESENTATIVE(S) McCluskey, May M., McFadyen, Miller, and Sinclair;

also SENATOR(S) Takis.

AN ACT

Concerning the modification of certain procedures related to the issuance of a duplicate warrant to pay money.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:

  SECTION 1.  24-30-202 (8), Colorado Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

  24-30-202.  Procedures - vouchers and warrants - rules - penalties. (8)  Each warrant drawn and issued shall bear a notation clearly printed in a prominent position upon its face stating that it shall be void after six months from its date of issue. Upon satisfactory proof furnished of loss or destruction, during said six-month period, of any warrant drawn and issued in payment of an approved expenditure or claim, the controller shall cause a duplicate of such lost or destroyed warrant to be drawn and issued in favor of the original payee or his or her assignee, as the case may be. which duplicate shall be clearly marked across its face: "Duplicate - The original is now void." The state treasurer issuing state agency shall thereupon issue a stop payment order upon void said original warrant, and, if it thereafter is presented for payment, he the state treasurer shall refuse payment thereof.

  SECTION 2.  Effective date.  This act shall take effect at 12:01 a.m. on the day following the expiration of the ninety-day period after final adjournment of the general assembly that is allowed for submitting a referendum petition pursuant to article V, section 1 (3) of the state constitution; except that, if a referendum petition is filed against this act or an item, section, or part of this act within such period, then the act, item, section, or part, if approved by the people, shall take effect on the date of the official declaration of the vote thereon by proclamation of the governor.

Approved: March 7, 2003

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