Idaho State Statutes - Idaho Attorney Directory

Upon the happening of any
emergency caused by fire, flood, explosion, storm, epidemic, riot or
insurrection, or for the immediate preservation of order or of public health
or for the restoration to a condition of usefulness of public property, the
usefulness of which has been destroyed by accident, or for the relief of a
stricken community overtaken by a calamity, or the settlement of approved
claims for personal injuries or property damages, exclusive of claims arising
from the operation of any public utility owned by the county, or to meet
mandatory expenditures required by law, or the investigation and/or
prosecution of crime, punishable by death or life imprisonment, when the board
has reason to believe such crime has been committed in its county, the board
of county commissioners may, upon the adoption, by the unanimous vote of the
commissioners, of a resolution stating the facts constituting the emergency
and entering the same upon their minutes, make the expenditures necessary to
investigate, provide for and meet such an emergency.
All emergency expenditures may be paid from any moneys on hand in the
county treasury in the fund properly chargeable with such expenditures, and
the county treasurer is hereby authorized to pay such warrants out of any
moneys in the treasury in any such fund. If at any time there shall be
insufficient moneys on hand in the treasury to pay any of such warrants, then
such warrants shall be registered, bear interest, and be called in the manner
provided by law for other county warrants.
The county budget officer shall include in the annual budget to be
submitted to the board of county commissioners, the total amount of emergency
warrants issued, registered and unpaid, during the current fiscal year and the
board of county commissioners shall include in their appropriation an amount
equal to the total of such registered and unpaid warrants.

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