§ 62-479. Incurring indebtedness or allowing bills in excess - Liability of officers.

A.  It shall be unlawful for the board of county commissioners, the county purchasing agent, the city council or the commissioners of any city, the trustees of any town, township board, or any member or members of the aforesaid commissioners, or of any of the above-named boards, to willfully or knowingly make any contract for, incur, acknowledge, approve, allow or authorize any indebtedness against their respective city, town or county or authorize it to be done by others, in excess of the estimate made and approved by the excise board for such purpose for the current fiscal year, or in excess of the specific amount authorized for such purpose by a bond issue.

B.  Any such indebtedness, contracted, incurred, acknowledged, approved, allowed or authorized in excess of the estimate made and approved for such purposes for the current fiscal year or in excess of the specific amount authorized for such purpose by a bond issue, shall not be a charge against the city, town or county whose officer or officers contracted, incurred, acknowledged, approved, allowed or authorized or attested the evidence of said indebtedness, but may be collected by civil action from any official willfully or knowingly contracting, incurring, acknowledging, approving or authorizing or attesting to the indebtedness, or from the bondsmen of the official.

Added by Laws 1910-11, c. 80, p. 183, § 9.  Amended by Laws 1982, c. 249, § 15; Laws 1991, c. 236, § 3, eff. Sept. 1, 1991; Laws 1997, c. 88, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 1997; Laws 2004, c. 361, § 10, eff. July 1, 2004.