2015 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 4 - Counties
Section 38 Board of County Commissioners
Section 4-38-28 Payments without authority; liability of commissioners.
4-38-28. [Payments without authority; liability of commissioners.]
All moneys, county warrants or other indebtedness paid out or ordered to be paid out by any of the said county commissioners before mentioned, without authority of law, each and every county commissioner so doing shall be liable for and to the county for the amount so by them paid out without authority of law and all the costs and expenses incurred in the recovery of such money, which amount shall be collected and recovered in a suit before the district court, and upon the said bond, in the same manner as other actions.
History: Laws 1887, ch. 8, 2; C.L. 1897, 697; Code 1915, 1215; C.S. 1929, 33-4229; 1941 Comp., 15-3525; 1953 Comp., 15-37-27.
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