TITLE 45 PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES

Section 4. Official Bonds, 45-4-1 through 45-4-30.

ARTICLE 2 COMMISSIONS

45-4-27. Effect of recovery on bond upon subsequent proceedings.

Official bonds of public officers shall not be discharged by a single recovery, but proceedings against the officer or his sureties or both may be had from time to time until the whole penalty is exhausted; and said bonds are joint and several whether or not so set forth.

(Laws 1847, Cobb's 1851 Digest, p. 502; Code 1863, § 159; Code 1868, § 154; Code 1873, § 165; Code 1882, § 165; Civil Code 1895, § 261; Civil Code 1910, § 296; Code 1933, § 89-422.)