61.240 County attorney and clerks not to buy claims against county -- Penalty. Any county attorney, circuit clerk or deputy, or county clerk or deputy who purchases or speculates in any claim allowed by the fiscal court of his county shall be fined in a sum twice the amount purchased or speculated in by him. History: Codified 1942 K y. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, and never compiled in Carroll's Statutes -- Amended 1882 Ky. Acts ch. 159, sec. 1. -- Created General Statutes, ch. 27, Art. III, sec. 10.
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