STATE OF OKLAHOMA

2nd Session of the 53rd Legislature (2012)

HOUSE BILL 2372	By:	Sanders

AS INTRODUCED

An Act relating to counties and county commissioners; amending 19 O.S. 2011, Section 333, which relates to county commissioners; modifying duties of certain commissioners; and providing an effective date.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1.     AMENDATORY     19 O.S. 2011, Section 333, is amended to read as follows:
Section 333.  A.  The board of county commissioners shall keep a book in which all orders and decisions made by them shall be recorded, except those relating solely to roads and bridges as required by Section 334 of this title.  All orders for the allowance of money from the county treasury shall state on what account and to whom the allowance is made, dating the same and numbering them consecutively from the first day of January to the thirty-first day of December, inclusive, in each year.
B.  Any county commissioner officer who fails to file for reelection or is defeated in any primary or general election or by any other manner it is impossible for the commissioner officer to serve another term in office, shall not acquire, purchase, contract for or dispose of any machinery or equipment, or expend or approve for expenditure any monies for any purpose other than normal or routine operating expenditures except as provided in this section.  It shall be the mandatory duty of the commissioner officer to execute payment and to pay all outstanding obligations of the county incurred by the commissioner officer, or on behalf of the commissioner officer by the board of county commissioners, prior to the expiration of the term of office of the commissioner officer.  However, in the case of lease-purchase contracts, rental, lease or other payments extending beyond the term of office of the commissioner officer it shall be the mandatory duty of the commissioner officer to execute and to make such payments current as of the date of expiration of the term of office of the commissioner officer.  The commissioner officer shall be liable both personally and on the official bond of the commissioner county for any violation of the mandatory duties herein imposed.
SECTION 2.  This act shall become effective November 1, 2012.

53-2-7972	LRB	01/03/12