75-3024. Contingent or other funds; accounts; embezzlement.
Where an appropriation shall be made as a contingent fund for any office or officer, or any other purpose, to be expended for the state, the officer or person having charge of such fund shall keep an account therewith showing when, to whom, and for what purpose any portion of said fund has been expended; and if any officer or person shall take or present any voucher for a greater sum of money than was actually paid or expended for the purpose stated or indicated in or by such voucher, he or she shall be deemed guilty of embezzlement of the amount so falsely included in such voucher in excess of the sum actually paid or expended.
History: L. 1879, ch. 166, § 131; March 20; R.S. 1923, 75-3024.