• Current through October 23, 2012

Until an officer or his legal representative shall have received notice that the property accounts of such officer have been examined and found correct the liability of such officer or of his estate for public property for which he is or may have been responsible or accountable shall be in no way affected by resignation, discharge, change in official position, desertion, or death.

(Mar. 1, 1889, 25 Stat. 777, ch. 328, as added Feb. 18, 1909, 35 Stat. 633, ch. 146, § 38.)

HISTORICAL AND STATUTORY NOTES

Prior Codifications

1981 Ed., § 39-210.

1973 Ed., § 39-510.