                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

REMEDY FOR FAILURE TO PAY SUCH WARRANTS (§ 58.1-3140)

If any such treasurer (i) fails to pay, upon presentation, any legal warrant
listed in § 58.1-3131, for which he has at the time funds appropriated by the
governing body of his jurisdiction out of which such warrant ought to be paid,
or (ii) fails to set apart necessary funds, when such funds are appropriated and
come into his hands, for the payment of such warrant or (iii) fails to pay over
the amount due upon such warrant as soon thereafter as the same may be again
presented, the holder thereof may, on motion in his own name, in the circuit
court of the treasurer&#8217;s county or city, recover from him and his sureties
the amount of such warrant, together with damages at the rate of ten percent per
month on the amount from the time such treasurer should have paid the warrant
and the costs of such motion, including reasonable attorney&#8217;s fees.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 58-928; 1959, Ex. Sess., c. 51; 1984, c. 675.