§ 128-11. Trust funds to be kept separate.
§128‑11. Trust funds to be kept separate.
Any sheriff, treasurer orother officer of any county, city, town or other political subdivision of theState, receiving, by virtue of his office, public money or money to be held byhim in trust shall keep or deposit such money or the credits or other evidencethereof separate and apart from his own funds and shall not, at any time, applysuch money to his own use or benefit or intermingle the same in any manner withcredits or funds of his own. (1931, c. 77, s. 1.)