SB 256, 36th R.S.
Relating to prohibiting commissioners' courts from issuing warrant, negotiable or non-negotiable, interest bearing or non-interest bearing, or from otherwise contracting debts against the courthouse and jail fund, or the road and bridge fund, of their respective counties in excess of the estimated receipts in the year for which such warrants or evidence of indebtedness are issued, and declaring all contracts undertaking to create any indebtedness against any such fund in excess of the estimated receipts to accrue for that year to such fund to be illegal and void; making county commissioners and county judges violating this act liable for the payment of any such indebtedness and for any amount illegally paid on such indebtedness.
Author: George Milton Hopkins, Sr.
Coauthor: William Luther Dean
Subjects:
County Government--Finance
Senate Committee: Civil Jurisprudence ()
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