Section 51-31-11 - Oath and bond of drainage commissioners

Each person selected county drainage commissioner shall, before entering upon the discharge of the duties of the office, give bond, with sufficient surety, to be payable, conditioned and approved as provided by law, in a penalty not less than Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00). Such commissioner shall take and subscribe to an oath of office before said clerk that he will faithfully discharge the duties of the office, which oath shall also be filed with the said clerk.Codes, 1906, § 1682; Hemingway's 1917, § 4261; 1930, § 4373; 1942, § 4578; Laws, 1986, ch. 458, § 40; Laws, 2009, ch. 467, § 18, eff. 7/1/2009.