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§ 25-1-13. State officials to make guaranty or surety bonds

MS Code § 25-1-13 (2019) (N/A)
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The state officials hereinafter named shall give bond in the penalty specified for each, with surety by one or more guaranty or surety companies authorized to do business in the state. Said bonds shall be approved by the Governor and commissioner of insurance and, when so approved, shall be filed and recorded in the office of the secretary of state.

The bond of the auditor of public accounts shall be for Thirty Thousand Dollars ($30,000.00); the state treasurer, One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000.00); the land commissioner, Fifteen Thousand Dollars ($15,000.00); each of the public service commissioners, Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00); director of the feed and fertilizer division, department of agriculture and commerce, Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00); assistant secretary of state, Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00); state forester, Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00); sergeant of the guard of penitentiary, One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00); dispatch sergeant of the state penitentiary, One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00).

The official bonds of all other state officers shall continue and remain as to amounts thereof as now fixed elsewhere by law, but said bonds shall be subject to the provisions stated herein for sureties, approval, filing, and premium payment unless otherwise specifically provided.

Premiums paid on all bonds under the provisions of this section shall be paid out of the state treasury upon warrant of the auditor, which shall be issued upon the approval of the bonds as herein provided; provided, however, that the said premiums shall be at the lowest rate obtainable. If from any cause such guaranty or surety bond or bonds cannot be obtained in whole or in part because of refusal of said guaranty or surety companies, at a reasonable rate in the judgment of the insurance commissioner or for other cause, to make such bond or bonds, upon certificate of the commissioner of insurance to that effect, the officer or officers having thus been unable to make a bond or bonds may make such bond with personal or individual surety in the required penalty, to be approved by the Governor and filed and recorded as directed herein, together with the certificate of the commissioner of insurance attached to the bond.

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