A. 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 Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services.

B. The Director and the State Treasurer shall maintain appropriate records in their offices to prevent, as nearly as reasonably possible, the state from mistakenly issuing any replacement warrant or bond.

C. Such records shall include a stop payment order against the original warrant to cancel the original warrant.

D. For such lost or destroyed miscellaneous warrants, the Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services shall cancel the original warrant record and process a replacement warrant against the original disbursement claim when possible, or otherwise 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 and issue a replacement from the Canceled Warrant Fund.

E. For lost or destroyed payroll warrants, the Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services shall issue all payroll replacement warrants pursuant to the provisions of this section from the Canceled Warrant Fund. The Director shall allow the original payroll warrant record to cancel by statute and shall transfer to the Canceled Warrant Fund the payable amount to cover the lost or destroyed warrants on which payment has been stopped pursuant to the provisions of this section from the fund and account against which the warrant had been drawn.

R.L. 1910, § 8067. Amended by Laws 1915, c. 63, § 1; Laws 1979, c. 47, § 93, emerg. eff. April 9, 1979; Laws 1982, c. 39, § 3, emerg. eff. March 26, 1982; Laws 1996, c. 219, § 5, eff. July 1, 1996; Laws 2009, c. 441, § 58, eff. July 1, 2009. Renumbered from § 34 of Title 74 of Laws 2009, c. 441, § 64, eff. July 1, 2009. Amended by Laws 2012, c. 304, § 401.