37-101-191 - Contracts of employment void for failure to file affidavit; recovery of funds paid under contracts.
§ 37-101-191. Contracts of employment void for failure to file affidavit; recovery of funds paid under contracts.
Any contract entered into by any board of trustees of any institution of higher learning or other educational institution supported wholly or in part by public funds, or by any governing authority thereof, with any instructor, professor, or other instructional personnel, who shall not have filed the affidavit required in Section 37-101-187 prior to the employment or election of such person and prior to the making of such contracts, shall be null and void and no funds shall be paid under said contract to such instructor, professor, or other instructional personnel. Any funds so paid under said contract to such instructor, professor, or other instructional personnel, may be recovered from the person receiving the same and/or from the board of trustees or other governing authority by suit filed in the circuit court of the county in which such contract was made. Any judgment entered by such court in such cause of action shall be a personal judgment against the defendants therein and upon the official bonds made by such defendants, if any such bonds be in existence.
Sources: Codes, 1942, § 6282-43; Laws, 1956, ch. 265, § 3.