• § 36-6-1 - Qualifications for Office; Election; Commission; Term; Abolishment and Fixing Compensation of Office by General Assembly
  (a) No other conditions of eligibility are required for the office of county treasurer than those which apply to all other county officers, provided...
• § 36-6-2 - Requirement of Bond and Oath
  No appointment or election to the office of county treasurer is effective until bond and security is given and the oath of office is
• § 36-6-3 - Form of Oath
  In addition to the oath required of all public officers, before entering on the duties of their office, county treasurers must take the following...
• § 36-6-4 - When Bond to Be Given; Form and Amount
  Within 30 days after his election or appointment, the county treasurer shall give a bond payable to the county governing authority with securities approved...
• § 36-6-5 - Filing and Recordation of Oath and Bond
  (a) The oath of office of the county treasurer must be entered on the minutes of the county governing authority and filed in his...
• § 36-6-6 - Recordation of Bond to Bind Third Parties; Effect of Recordation After 30 Days
  As against the interests of third parties acting in good faith and without notice who may have acquired a transfer or lien binding the...
• § 36-6-7 - Effect of Code Sections 36-6-5 and 36-6-6 on Lien of Bond
  Nothing in Code Sections 36-6-5 and 36-6-6 shall be construed to affect the validity or force of the lien of any such bond from...
• § 36-6-8 - Time At Which Lien of Bond Arises
  When any official bond is executed by any county treasurer or any person acting as such, the property of the treasurer or person acting...
• § 36-6-9 - Governor's Directions Relating to Bond; Payment of Costs of Transmitting and Recording Bond
  It shall be the duty of the Governor to give written or printed directions to the county governing authority upon the requirements of Code...
• § 36-6-10 - Location of Office
  The county treasurer must keep his office at the county site or at some place within one mile of the courthouse.
• § 36-6-11 - Books and Stationery Furnished by County
  All books and stationery required by the county treasurer must be furnished at the expense of the county.
• § 36-6-12 - Compensation and Fees
  County treasurers are entitled to receive the following fees: (1) For receiving and paying out county funds: (A) Two and one-half percent for receiving...
• § 36-6-13 - Receipt of Commission or Fees in Connection With Certain Road Contracts; Collection and Disbursement of Road Contract Funds
  No county treasurer or other county official shall receive any commission on funds received or disbursed in connection with county contracts with the Department...
• § 36-6-14 - Duties Generally
  It is the duty of the county treasurer: (1) To collect diligently from all officers and others all moneys due the county; (2) To...
• § 36-6-15 - Collection and Disbursal of Funds Generally
  All county funds are to be paid to and disbursed by the county treasurer except such as may be specially excepted by law, which...
• § 36-6-16 - Deposits of County Funds in Designated Depositories
  The treasurers of the several counties are authorized to deposit the county funds which may come into their hands as county treasurers in any...
• § 36-6-16.1 - Deposit of Funds Held for Benefit of Third Persons by Officer of County or Court in Treasury of Counties Having Population of 600,000 or More
  (a) It shall be lawful in all counties of this state having a population of 600,000 or more according to the United States decennial...
• § 36-6-17 - Furnishing of Bonds by Depositories Selected by Treasurer
  Any depository of state funds selected by the county treasurer to be a depository of the county funds shall, in addition to the bond...
• § 36-6-18 - Arrangements for Payment of Interest on Deposits; Disposition of Interest Payments
  The county treasurers are authorized to arrange with the bank to pay interest on the money deposited with the bank, but they are not...
• § 36-6-19 - Disposition of Books of Treasurer When Full
  When the books of the county treasurer are full, they must be deposited, together with the vouchers and other files relating thereto, in the...
• § 36-6-20 - Delivery of Money, Books, Papers, and Property to Successor
  Upon the resignation, expiration of the term, or removal from office of the county treasurer, he, or, if he is dead, his personal representative,...
• § 36-6-21 - Final Settlement of Accounts
  When the county treasurer or his personal representative has made a fair and full statement of all his accounts and liabilities as such, pursuant...
• § 36-6-22 - Requirement of Accountings by Treasurer
  It shall be the duty of the judge of the probate court or county governing authority to compel the treasurers of the county to...
• § 36-6-23 - Proceedings Upon Failure of Treasurer to Render Accounting
  The failure or refusal of any county treasurer to render the account and make the showing provided for by Code Section 36-6-22, after being...
• § 36-6-24 - Removal of Treasurer
  County treasurers may be removed from office in the same manner as clerks of the superior courts may be removed.
• § 36-6-25 - Filling of Vacancies
  Vacancies in the office of county treasurer shall be filled as are vacancies in other county offices.
• § 36-6-26 - Bonds of Persons Appointed to Fill Vacancies
  The amount of the bonds of appointees to fill vacancies shall be in the discretion of the county governing authority, taking into consideration the...
• § 36-6-27 - Execution Against County Treasurer for Failure to Pay Over Money
  When the county treasurer at any time fails to pay any order which is entitled to payment, any other legal demand upon him, or...
• § 36-6-28 - Purchase of County Orders At Less Than Full Value or Refusal to Pay Order
  Any county treasurer who buys up any county orders or claims for less than their full par value, either by himself or by agents,...

Last modified: October 14, 2016