Each officer of this state,
or of any county, city, town or district of this state, and every other person
charged with the receipt, safe keeping, transfer or disbursement of public
moneys, who either:
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. Wilfully 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. Wilfully omits to transfer the same when such transfer is required by
law; or,
10. Wilfully 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;
Is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for not less than one
(1) nor more than ten (10) years, and is disqualified from holding any office
in this state. |
