10-810. Execution of unlawful or irregular warrants or warrant checks; penalties. Any officer of any municipality who shall sign or attest any warrant or warrant check not duly authorized by the proper governing body, and any treasurer who shall sign any warrant or warrant check not theretofore signed by the proper officers as required in this act, shall be liable to such municipality in the sum of each warrant or warrant check; and any such officer who shall violate any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not less than fifty dollars ($50) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500).
History: L. 1891, ch. 249, § 10; R.S. 1923, § 10-810; L. 1968, ch. 375, § 12; July 1.
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