65-1-86 - Duty of Attorney General with respect to illegal contracts or criminal acts.
§ 65-1-86. Duty of Attorney General with respect to illegal contracts or criminal acts.
The Attorney General shall, with or without a request by the State Highway Commission, bring any lawsuit, in the name of the State Highway Commission, to recover any monies lost through illegal contracts, fraud, false pretense or any other criminal act, and the highway commission shall, at the direction of the Attorney General, supply internal audits or perform any other necessary act to furnish the attorney general with any evidence pertaining to such loss for use by the Attorney General in the preparation of said lawsuits.
Sources: Laws, 1973, ch. 418, § 1, eff from and after passage (approved March 29, 1973).