Section 11-2-20

Requirement of additional bonds of county officials, etc., generally — Authority.

When in the judgment of the county commission of any county any bond provided for in this Code is insufficient either as to the penalty or the surety to fully protect the public interests and safeguard the public funds, such county commission may require such officer or employee or deputy, clerk or employee in any county office to make an additional bond in such amount and with such sureties as may be approved by said county commission; provided, that the foregoing shall not apply to the county superintendent of education or the custodian of county public school funds, but, when, in the judgment of the county school board, the bond of the superintendent of education or the custodian of county public school funds of said county is insufficient either in penalty or surety to fully safeguard the public school funds, such county school board shall require such officer to make additional bonds in such amounts and with such sureties as may be approved by said board.

(Acts 1933, Ex. Sess., No. 191, p. 203; Code 1940, T. 41, §83.)