(1) The treasury department shall maintain a record of the number and amount of each warrant and each check presented for payment and endorsed by the state treasurer as provided in section 24-36-107. Whenever there are sufficient moneys in the state treasury to pay part or all of such endorsed warrants and checks, the state treasurer shall give notice of the date of payment of the same through publication, twice, in some newspaper published in Denver, listing the numbers and amounts of the warrants and checks that he or she is prepared to pay on said date. Interest on the warrants and checks so listed shall cease at the expiration of fifteen days from the last date of publication of said notice.
The state treasurer is authorized to pay interest on any such warrant and any suchcheck at the rate endorsed thereon out of any moneys in the state treasury to the credit of the general fund or such other fund out of which the warrant or check is payable and to charge the amount of interest so paid to such fund.
Interest paid on any such warrant or any such check shall be receipted for thereon bythe payee or assignee thereof.
Source: L. 71: R&RE, p. 97, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 3-6-8. L. 2014: Entire section amended, (HB 14-1391), ch. 328, p. 1453, § 11, effective June 5.
Cross references: For clarification of terms and requirements for notice by publication, see part 1 of article 70 of this title.