The treasurer shall receive the county levy in the manner prescribed for the receipt of the state revenue and shall, at the August meeting of the governing body of the county, or within thirty days thereafter, settle with the governing body his accounts for that year. Out of the balance shown to be in his hands upon the settlement he shall at once pay all warrants drawn on the appropriations for that year not previously paid, in the order of their presentation. When the treasurer’s term of office expires or if he dies, resigns or is removed from office, the treasurer, upon the expiration of his term of office, resignation, or removal, or his personal representative, upon his death, shall immediately make such settlement, showing the amount in his hands to be accounted for and the fund to which such funds belong and deliver to his successor all securities belonging to his office and all money belonging to the county.

Terms Used In Virginia Code 58.1-3137

  • Personal representative: includes the executor of a will or the administrator of the estate of a decedent, the administrator of such estate with the will annexed, the administrator of such estate unadministered by a former representative, whether there is a will or not, any person who is under the order of a circuit court to take into his possession the estate of a decedent for administration, and every other curator of a decedent's estate, for or against whom suits may be brought for causes of action that accrued to or against the decedent. See Virginia Code 1-234
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes any of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the United States Virgin Islands. See Virginia Code 1-245

Code 1950, § 58-925; 1959, Ex. Sess., c. 51; 1984, c. 675.

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