141 - Claims against contractors.

§  141.  Claims  against  contractors.   A contractor under a contract  heretofore or hereafter made or awarded by the state or  by  any  public  department or official thereof, in case any claim or notice of claim for  injury  or damage to person or property, arising out of or in connection  with the performance of such contract, be made  to  or  filed  with  the  state  or  any  public department or official thereof, may file with the  comptroller an undertaking in the terms and manner  prescribed  in  this  section,  and  thereupon  the  comptroller  shall  be authorized to make  payments to such contractor pursuant to the terms of such contract. Such  undertaking shall be executed with such sureties, in such form  and  for  such  amount  as the comptroller may prescribe, and shall be conditioned  for the payment  by  such  contractor  of  any  judgment  which  may  be  recovered in an action brought upon such claim.