The bonds of all public officers and public employees required to give bond shall be made payable to the state, and shall be put in suit in the name of the state for the use and benefit of any person injured by the breach thereof. Such bonds shall not be void on the first recovery, but may be put in suit from time to time by any party injured by the breach thereof, until the whole penalty shall be recovered.Codes, 1857, ch. 6, art 188; 1871, § 311; 1880, § 404; 1892, § 3056; 1906, § 3464; Hemingway's 1917, § 2802; 1930, § 2889; 1942, § 4034; Laws, 1986, ch. 458, § 2, eff. 10/1/1986.
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