Title 45, Chapter 8, Section 24
( 45-8-24)
In any proceeding for accounting under this chapter, there may be
joined originally or by amendment, either before or after appeal,
all such officers, depositories, banks, and securities on bonds of
any of them as shall be necessary or proper for the full
determination of any matter in controversy, and especially, but
without limiting the generality of the foregoing, for determining
the respective liabilities as between an officer and some other
officer, between an officer and a bank or depository, between them
or any of them and the sureties of any of them, or between sureties
of any of them. The proper authority or any court which shall have
acquired jurisdiction in any proceeding for accounting by appeal or
otherwise shall have the jurisdiction to determine completely the
respective liabilities of the parties as among themselves, as well
as the liability of any officer, bank, or depository and the
sureties, to the public body or bodies involved. The jurisdiction
given in this chapter shall extend not only to the compelling of an
officer and his sureties to account for taxes or other public money
which he has in fact collected, but for money which it was his duty
to collect and which, in the exercise of good faith and ordinary
diligence, he should have collected; and such jurisdiction may be
exercised against any public officer who has received or collected
the money of any public body, whether or not it was a part of his
official duty to receive it or collect it. |