8.38 - MISUSE OF APPROPRIATIONS.

        8.38  MISUSE OF APPROPRIATIONS.
         No state department, institution, or agency, or any board member,
      commissioner, director, manager, or other person connected with any
      such department, institution, or agency, shall expend funds or
      approve claims in excess of the appropriations made thereto, nor
      expend funds for any purpose other than that for which the money was
      appropriated, except as otherwise provided by law.  A violation of
      the foregoing provision shall make any person violating same, or
      consenting to the violation of same liable to the state for such sum
      so expended together with interest and costs, which shall be
      recoverable in an action to be instituted by the attorney general for
      the use of the state, which action may be brought in any county of
      the state.  
         Section History: Early Form
         [C35, § 84-e29; C39, § 84.31; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73,
      75, 77, 79, 81, § 8.38]