Section 26-3-7 Requirement of new or additional bond from conservator; effect of failure to give same.

Section 26-3-7

Requirement of new or additional bond from conservator; effect of failure to give same.

The judge of probate shall have authority and it shall be his or her duty, whenever he or she deems it necessary for the safety of the ward, to require the conservator to give a new or additional bond. If, on notice of such requisition, such conservator fails for 10 days to give such new or additional bond, the judge is authorized to remove him or her and revoke his or her letters.

(Code 1852, §2019; Code 1867, §2418; Code 1876, §764; Code 1886, §§2384, 2408; Code 1896, §2278; Code 1907, §4368; Code 1923, §8141; Code 1940, T. 21, §33; Acts 1987, No. 87-590, p. 975, §2-333(b).)