No officer or employee of the corrections department shall enter into any business venture or contract with or, under any pretense whatever, receive from any inmate or parolee any sum of money, emolument or reward or any article of value under the penalty of being discharged from service or from office and forfeiting all money, of whatever kind, due him, from the department or state, and being disqualified from ever holding that position in the future.
History: Laws 1889, ch. 76, § 28; C.L. 1897, § 3517; Code 1915, § 5040; C.S. 1929, § 130-123; 1941 Comp., § 45-118; 1953 Comp., § 42-1-18; Laws 1977, ch. 257, § 66; 1982, ch. 43, § 1.
ANNOTATIONSAm. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 72 C.J.S. Prisons and Rights of Prisoners §§ 20 to 22, 25, 26, 28, 29, 31, 35, 41, 42, 45 to 49, 63, 99, 105, 130.