Alabama § 36-5-20 Effect of Bonds Improperly Executed, Approved or Filed

Alabama Statutes

§ 36-5-20 — Effect of Bonds Improperly Executed, Approved or Filed

Alabama § 36-5-20

Title 36Public Officers and Employees

Ch. 5Official Bonds

Art. 1General Provisions

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Ala. Code § 36-5-20 (2026).

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Whenever any officer required by law to give an official bond acts under a bond which is not in the penalty, payable and conditioned or without sureties of the requisite qualification and sufficiency as prescribed by law, such bond is valid and binding on the obligors therein and stands in the place of the official bond, subject, on its condition being broken, to all the remedies which the person aggrieved might have maintained on the official bond of such officer, executed, approved and filed according to law.

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Whenever any officer required by law to give an official bond acts under a bond which is not in the penalty, payable and conditioned or without sureties of the requisite qualification and sufficiency as prescribed by law, such bond is valid and binding on the obligors therein and stands in the place of the official bond, subject, on its condition being broken, to all the remedies which the person aggrieved might have maintained on the official bond of such officer, executed, approved and filed according to law.