3-2-405. Settlements and accounts to state auditor. (1) The clerk is responsible and must account for and, in his settlement with the state auditor, must be charged with the full amount of all fees collected or chargeable and accruing in causes brought into the court for services rendered therein up to the time of each settlement. The settlement must take place quarterly, and immediately thereafter the clerk must pay the amount found due into the treasury or to the public employees' retirement division, as provided in 3-2-404.
     (2) He must also at the end of each quarter render to the state auditor, in such form as that officer prescribes, an account in detail and under oath of all fees chargeable and accruing in causes brought into court and not included in his previous accounts.
     (3) His salary may not be allowed or paid until all fees so accruing for which he is chargeable have been accounted for and paid over.

     History: En. Sec. 874, Pol. C. 1895; re-en. Sec. 303, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 374, R.C.M. 1921; amd. Sec. 374, R.C.M. 1935; amd. Sec. 19, Ch. 344, L. 1977; R.C.M. 1947, 82-505.