The boards of county commissioners of their respective counties at their regular meeting in January in each year shall cause to be prepared a statement of the receipts and expenditures of such county during the year immediately preceding, setting forth the amount of money received from taxes, from licenses and all other sources; setting forth also the amount expended and the particular objects for which in each case every sum of money has been expended; and such statement signed by the chairman and county clerk shall be published.
History: Laws 1876, ch. 1, § 26; C.L. 1884, § 357; C.L. 1897, § 675; Code 1915, § 1211; C.S. 1929, § 33-4225; 1941 Comp., § 15-3524; 1953 Comp., § 15-37-26.
ANNOTATIONSCompiler's notes. — This section may be affected by 10-17-1 to 10-17-3 NMSA 1978 which provide for monthly summaries of minutes of the proceedings of the board of county commissioners to be prepared and filed with the clerk and mailed to county legal newspapers and made public, and for monthly statements of expenditures to be published.
Cross references. — For publication of proceedings of board of county commissioners generally, see 4-38-9 NMSA 1978.
For preparation and disposition of monthly minutes of proceedings of board of county commissioners, see 10-17-1, 10-17-2 NMSA 1978.
For publication of list of monthly expenditures of board of county commissioners, see 10-17-3 NMSA 1978.
For filing of monthly statements of public moneys received and disbursed by county officers, see 10-17-4 NMSA 1978.
For language requirements for publication of proceedings of board of county commissioners, see 14-11-11 NMSA 1978.
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 20 C.J.S. Counties § 196.