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2014 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 4 - Counties
Section 38 Board of County Commissioners
Section 4-38-29 Approving unauthorized account; penalty; recovery of money.

NM Stat § 4-38-29 (2014) What's This?
4-38-29. [Approving unauthorized account; penalty; recovery of money.]
Any county commissioner who shall vote to approve any account, or order any money paid to any officer or individual, except as provided by law, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars [($500)], and the money so illegally ordered to be paid shall be recovered in a suit brought in the name of the county on his official bond.
History: Laws 1897, ch. 60, 15 [14]; C.L. 1897, 867(14); Code 1915, 1216; C.S. 1929, 33-4230; 1941 Comp., 15-3526; 1953 Comp., 15-37-28.

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