12 - Force and effect of official undertaking.

§ 12. Force  and effect of official undertaking. An officer of whom an  official undertaking  is  required,  shall  not  receive  any  money  or  property as such officer, or do any act affecting the disposition of any  money  or property which such officer is entitled to receive or have the  custody of, before he shall have filed such undertaking; and any  person  having  the  custody  or control of any such money or property shall not  deliver the same to any officer of whom an undertaking is required until  such undertaking shall have been given. If a public officer required  to  give  an  official  undertaking, enters upon the discharge of any of his  official duties before giving such undertaking, the  sureties  upon  his  undertaking  subsequently given for or during his official term shall be  liable for all his acts and defaults done or suffered and for all moneys  and property received during such term prior to the  execution  of  such  undertaking,  or  if a new undertaking is given, from the time notice to  give such new undertaking is served upon him. Every official undertaking  shall be obligatory and in force so long as the officer  shall  continue  to  act  as  such  and  until  his successor shall be appointed and duly  qualified, and until the conditions of the undertaking shall  have  been  fully performed. When an official undertaking is renewed pursuant to law  the  sureties  upon  the  former undertaking shall not be liable for any  official act done or moneys received after the due  execution,  approval  and filing of the new undertaking.