38-607. Recovery of payment to disqualified
persons


Any board, officer or person who allows, audits or pays any warrant or other
certificate of indebtedness for services performed to any person not qualified as
provided in section 38-201, shall be liable for twice the amount so paid by an action in
the name of any citizen of the county, if paid from county funds, or by an action in the
name of any citizen of the state, if paid from state funds. The recovery, if any, shall
be paid into the fund from which the amount was originally paid.