<br><br>61.240 County attorney and clerks not to buy claims against county -- Penalty. <br>Any county attorney, circuit clerk or deputy, or county clerk or deputy who purchases or <br>speculates in any claim allowed by the fiscal court of his county shall be fined in a sum <br>twice the amount purchased or speculated in by him. <br>History: Codified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, and never <br>compiled in Carroll's Statutes -- Amended 1882 Ky. Acts ch. 159, sec. 1. -- Created <br>General Statutes, ch. 27, Art. III, sec. 10. <br><br>