US Laws, Codes, Statutes & Cases

                                  TITLE  18
                            CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS
                                  CHAPTER 57
                         PUBLIC FUNDS AND SECURITIES
    18-5701.  MISUSE OF PUBLIC MONEY BY OFFICERS. Each officer of this state,
or of any county, city, town or district of this state, and every other person
charged with the receipt, safekeeping, transfer or disbursement of public
moneys, who:
    (1)  Without authority of law, appropriates the same or any portion
thereof to his own use, or to the use of another; or
    (2)  Loans the same or any portion thereof; or, having the possession or
control of any public money, makes a profit out of, or uses the same for any
purpose not authorized by law; or
    (3)  Fails to keep the same in his possession until disbursed or paid out
by authority of law; or
    (4)  Deposits the same or any portion thereof in any bank, or with any
banker or other person, otherwise than on special deposit, or as otherwise
authorized by law; or
    (5)  Changes or converts any portion thereof from coin into currency, or
from currency into coin or other currency, without authority of law; or
    (6)  Knowingly keeps any false account, or makes any false entry or
erasure in any account of or relating to the same; or
    (7)  Fraudulently alters, falsifies, conceals, destroys or obliterates any
such account; or
    (8)  Willfully refuses or omits to pay over, on demand, any public moneys
in his hands, upon the presentation of a draft, order or warrant drawn upon
such moneys by competent authority; or
    (9)  Willfully omits to transfer the same when such transfer is required
by law; or
    (10) Willfully omits or refuses to pay over to any officer or person
authorized by law to receive the same, any money received by him under any
duty imposed by law so to pay over the same; or
    (11) Knowingly uses any financial transaction card, financial transaction
card account number or credit account that is issued to or for the benefit of
any public entity, office or agency to make any purchase, loan, guarantee or
advance of moneys for any personal purpose or for any purpose other than for
the use or benefit of the public entity, office or agency;
Is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for not less than one (1)
year nor more than ten (10) years, and is disqualified from holding any office
in this state.