Section 404 – Making profit from or misusing public money or public property — Disqualification from office — Criminal penalty.

Effective 5/12/2020
76-8-404. Making profit from or misusing public money or public property — Disqualification from office — Criminal penalty.
A public officer, regardless of whether the public officer receives, safekeeps, transfers, disburses, or has a fiduciary relationship with public money, who makes a profit from or out of public money or public property, or who uses public money or public property in a manner or for a purpose not authorized by law and is convicted of a felony under Section 76-8-402 is, in addition to the punishment provided by law, disqualified from holding public office.

Amended by Chapter 61, 2020 General Session