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HB 1136 clarify the approval authority for local accounts...

State of South Dakota  
SEVENTY-SEVENTH SESSION
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY,  2002
 

543H0472  
SENATE ENGROSSED   NO. HB 1136   -   02/19/2002  

        Introduced by: Representatives Olson (Mel), Bartling, Bradford, Burg, Davis, Elliott, Flowers, Gillespie, Glenski, Hanson (Gary), Hargens, Hundstad, Kloucek, Nachtigal, Nesselhuf, Peterson (Jim), Sigdestad, and Valandra and Senators Hutmacher, Dennert, Hagen, Koetzle, McIntyre, Moore, Reedy, Sutton (Dan), Symens, and Volesky  


         FOR AN ACT ENTITLED, An Act to  clarify the approval authority for local accounts of the state treasurer and state auditor.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA:
     Section  1.  That § 4-4-3 be amended to read as follows:
     4-4-3.   All state public funds shall be received and maintained in the state treasury, and shall be disbursed only upon proper authorization by the state auditor and the state treasurer, unless the state treasurer and state auditor shall jointly determine a justification exists for maintaining such public funds in a local bank account. A local bank account authorized by the state auditor and state treasurer is an official account of the state subject to the custody of the state treasurer under §  1-10-1. Neither the state treasurer nor the state auditor may be a signatory on any local account. Any agency holding state funds in any local bank account shall provide a quarterly statement of activity in that account to the state treasurer and the state auditor.
     Section  2.  That § 4-3-5 be amended to read as follows:
     4-3-5.   Every such Each officer or employee shall designate in writing, to be filed in his the officer's or employee's office, the bank or banks in which he shall have are deposited the current receipts of his the office or department and any . Any account showing any such deposit shall be is an official account and shall be accessible to the inspection of the auditor-general at any time during banking hours.
     Section  3.  That chapter 4-4 be amended by adding thereto a NEW SECTION to read as follows:
     The state treasurer and state auditor shall approve local drug buy accounts at the request of the attorney general.