7-32-2128. False claims by sheriff. A sheriff who falsely represents to the board of county commissioners or governor the sheriff's actual traveling expenses in the performance of any official duty or causes to be paid to the sheriff from the state or any county treasury a sum exceeding the actual expenses in the performance of the sheriff's duty is guilty of a misdemeanor.

     History: En. Sec. 4627, Pol. C. 1895; re-en. Sec. 3160, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 4909, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 4909, R.C.M. 1935; amd. Sec. 18, Ch. 513, L. 1973; amd. Sec. 99, Ch. 326, L. 1974; R.C.M. 1947, 25-225; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 446, L. 1979; amd. Sec. 12, Ch. 461, L. 1989; 7-32-2128(1), MCA 1987 redes. 7-32-2249 by Code Commissioner, 1989; amd. Sec. 17, Ch. 114, L. 2003.