Cite as: 21 CNCA § 341

Every public officer of the Nation and every deputy or clerk of any such officer and every other person receiving any money or other thing of value on behalf of or for account of this Nation or any department of the government of this Nation or any bureau or fund created by law and in which this Nation or the people thereof, are directly or indirectly interested, who either:

First: Appropriates to his own use, or to the use of any person not entitled thereto, without authority of law, any money or anything of value received by him as such officer, clerk, or deputy, or otherwise, on behalf of this Nation, or any subdivision of this Nation, or the people thereof, or in which they are interested; or

Second: Receives, directly or indirectly, any interest, profit or perquisites, arising from the use or loan of public funds in his hands or money to be raised through his agency for the Nation; or

Third: Knowingly keeps any false account, or makes any false entry or erasure in any account of or relating to any monies so received by him, on behalf of the Nation, or the people thereof, or in which they are interested; or

Fourth: Fraudulently alters, falsifies, cancels, destroys or obliterates any such account; or

Fifth: Willfully omits or refuses to pay over to the Nation, or its officers or agents authorized by law to receive the same, any money or interest, profit or perquisites arising therefrom, received by him under any duty imposed by law so to pay over the same, shall upon conviction thereof, be deemed guilty of a crime, and in addition thereto shall be disqualified to hold office in this Nation, and the court shall issue an order of such forfeiture, and should appeal be taken from the judgment of the Court, the defendant may, in the discretion of the Court, stand suspended from such office until such cause is finally determined.

Historical Data

LA 10–90, eff. November 13, 1990.