The clerk of any county, city or town, is hereby authorized and empowered to issue a second or duplicate check, warrant or voucher in lieu of any check, warrant or voucher that has been issued and subsequently lost or destroyed. Unless the treasurer of any county, city or town has evidence that a stop-payment order has been issued, no second or duplicate check, warrant or voucher shall be issued until an affidavit setting forth the facts as to the loss or destruction of the original check, warrant or voucher has been filed with the clerk, together with an indemnifying bond running to the treasurer of the county, city or town, or to the Treasurer of the State of Oklahoma, in double the amount of such lost or destroyed check, warrant or voucher. The conditions of such bond shall be to indemnify and protect the county, city or town, or to the Treasurer of the State of Oklahoma, from any loss or harm occasioned or sustained on account of the issue of such second or duplicate check, warrant or voucher. The bond shall be satisfactory to the treasurer of such county, city or town, or to the Treasurer of the State of Oklahoma, who shall, upon being satisfied as to the sufficiency of the bond, endorse approval thereon. The clerk and treasurer shall make such records in their respective offices as will, as nearly as possible, preclude any loss being sustained by the county, city or town, or to the Treasurer of the State of Oklahoma, on account of the issue of any second or duplicate check, warrant or voucher. Warrants issued by the State Treasurer against claims submitted through the Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services in payment of obligations of the state which may subsequently be lost or destroyed will be governed by the provisions of Section 34.81 of this title.
Added by Laws 1953, p. 287, § 1, emerg. eff. June 1, 1953. Amended by Laws 1982, c. 39, § 2, emerg. eff. March 26, 1982; Laws 1985, c. 348, § 7, emerg. eff. July 30, 1985; Laws 1990, c. 221, § 4, operative July 1, 1990; Laws 1991, c. 124, § 29, eff. July 1, 1991; Laws 1997, c. 144, § 2, eff. July 1, 1997; Laws 2004, c. 361, § 14, eff. July 1, 2004; Laws 2012, c. 304, § 465.