The State Treasurer is hereby authorized and empowered to issue a replacement warrant or bond in lieu of any warrant or bond that has been lost or destroyed; provided, that no replacement warrant or bond shall be issued until an affidavit setting forth the facts as to the loss or destruction of said original warrant or bond has been filed with the State Treasurer. The Director of State Finance and the State Treasurer shall make such records in their respective offices as will, as nearly as possible, preclude any loss being sustained by the state on account of the issue of any replacement warrant or bond.

Such entries shall include a stop payment order against the original warrant which will, as nearly as possible, cancel said original warrant. The Director of State Finance shall transfer to the Canceled Warrant Fund the payable amount of lost or destroyed warrants on which payment has been stopped pursuant to the provisions of this section from the fund and account against which said warrant had been drawn. Warrants issued to replace lost or destroyed warrants pursuant to the provisions of this section shall be drawn against the Canceled Warrant Fund.

R.L. 1910, § 8067. Amended by Laws 1915, SB 344, c. 63, § 1, emerg. eff. March 3, 1915; Amended by Laws 1979, HB 1020, c. 47, § 93, emerg. eff. April 9, 1979; Amended by Laws 1982, HB 1820, c. 39, § 3, emerg. eff. March 26, 1982; Amended by Laws 1996, HB 2373, c. 219, § 5, emerg. eff. July 1, 1996.