Dean v. Rampton

CROCKETT, Justice:

Plaintiffs, members of the Forty-first Legislature (1975) brought this action to test the validity of subsection (3) of Sec. 63-2-15, U.C.A.1953, quoted below, as applicable to their claims for expenses incurred in attending the national convention of State Legislatures in Philadelphia in October, 1975. They submitted their claims to the State Auditor, who in turn referred them to the defendant Board of Examiners (herein Board). The Board refused to authorize payment of the claims because they had not been submitted for prior approval as prescribed by that statute.…