The State Controller or any other state fiscal officer shall not draw, sign, issue or authorize the drawing, signing or issuing of any warrant on the State Treasurer or other state disbursing officer, and the State Treasurer or other state disbursing officer shall not pay any salary or compensation to any person in the classified or unclassified service of the State unless the payroll or account for the salary or compensation containing the name of every person to be paid bears the certificate of the Administrator or the authorized representative of the Administrator stating:
1. That the persons named in the payroll or account have been appointed, employed, reinstated or promoted as required by law and the regulations established under this chapter; and
2. That the salary or compensation is within the salary or wage schedule fixed pursuant to law.
[53:351:1953] — (NRS A 1963, 1042; 1983, 627)