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]