                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DISBURSEMENT OF MONEY DEPOSITED (§ 58.1-3162)

A. Money deposited under the provisions of this article shall be disbursed only
upon checks signed by the county treasurer and drawn in payment of lawfully
issued and properly drawn orders or warrants and lawfully issued and properly
drawn and matured bonds, notes or other obligations of the county, for the
payment of which funds are available.

B. This section shall not be construed as preventing any county treasurer or his
duly authorized deputy from (i) transferring, by check or wire transfer, money
from one approved depository to another, (ii) from settling with the
Commonwealth, without an order from the governing body of his county, for state
revenues or other items collected and remittable by him to the State Treasurer,
or (iii) from paying to the State Treasurer without an order from the board of
supervisors or other governing body of his county, any amount or amounts
pursuant to provisions of law.

C. Any governing body may require that checks issued pursuant to the provisions
of this section be countersigned and may appoint such person or persons as it
may desire for the purpose.

D. This section shall not be construed as imposing upon any depository any
obligation to determine whether any check issued pursuant to the provisions of
this section was issued for any purpose or purposes other than those specified
herein or as imposing any liability upon any such depository for paying any
check so issued.

E. The treasurer may, with the approval of the governing body, by resolution
entered of record on the minute book of the board, authorize one or more of his
deputies to sign any such checks whenever the necessity therefor shall arise by
reason of the sickness or unavoidable absence of the treasurer or his inability
to sign such checks for any other reason.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 58-951; 1960, c. 526; 1978, c. 25; 1984, c. 675.