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.
Structure Kansas Statutes
Chapter 10 - Bonds And Warrants
10-801 Terms; combination warrant checks; preparation.
10-802 Authority for issuance; claims, when.
10-803 Signatures on warrants and warrant checks.
10-804 Record of warrants and warrant checks.
10-805 Same; duties of treasurer; signature.
10-806 Same; payment; endorsement.
10-807 Same; no-fund warrants, registration; recordation; payment; when not receivable for taxes.
10-808 Redemption of no-fund warrants; duties of county treasurer; call.
10-809 Warrant register; custody.
10-810 Execution of unlawful or irregular warrants or warrant checks; penalties.
10-811 Cancellation of state warrants; when warrant may be canceled; records of cancellation.
10-813 Same; nonpayment of warrant for lack of funds tolls time period for cancellation.