§ 74-602. Filing in office of Secretary of State.

Every official bond in effect on the effective date of this act shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State, within ten (10) days after the effective date of this act, and it shall be the duty of any officer, department, board, commission, institution, or agency of the state having custody of any official bond on the effective date of this act to transmit it to the office of the Secretary of State within said ten-day period.  If any such bond be not filed within said time, the officer or employee for whom or on whose behalf the said bond was executed shall be deemed not to have complied with the statute, rule, regulations, requirement or order requiring said officer or employee to be bonded; provided, that nothing herein shall be construed as preventing a recovery on said bond, against the surety or sureties, in the same manner as if the said bond had been properly filed in the Office of the Secretary of State.

Laws 1953, p. 424, § 2.