97-11-29 - Embezzlement; accounts to be kept by all public officers; false entries, false certificates, loan of public funds and fraud on the treasury. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 97-11-29. Embezzlement; accounts to be kept by all public officers; false entries, false certificates, loan of public funds and fraud on the treasury.
 

The state treasurer, auditor of public accounts, assessors and collectors of taxes, and all other state and county officers, and officers of cities, towns and villages, shall make and keep in their offices, subject to inspection at all times, an accurate entry of each and every sum of public money, securities, stocks, or other public money whatever, by them received, transferred, or disbursed; and if any of said officers, either municipal, county or state, or a clerk, agent or employee of such officers, shall willfully and fraudulently make any false entry therein or make any certificate or endorsement of any warrant on the treasury that the same is genuine, when the same is in fact not a genuine warrant, or shall loan any portion of the public moneys, securities, stocks, or other public property intrusted to him, for any purpose whatever, or shall, by willful act or omission of duty whatever, defraud, or attempt to defraud, the state, or any county, city, town or village, of any moneys, security, or property, he shall, on conviction thereof, be guilty of embezzlement, and fined not less than double the amount or value of the moneys, security, stock or other property so embezzled, or committed to the department of corrections for not more than ten (10) years, or both. 
 

Sources: Codes, 1857, ch. 64, art. 85; 1871, § 2550; 1880, § 2789; 1892, § 1065; 1906, § 1143; Hemingway's 1917, § 871; 1930, § 896; 1942, § 2122; Laws,  1979, ch. 508, § 14, eff from and after November 15, 1979 (the United States Attorney General interposed no objection to this amendment on July 6, 1979).