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AZ Rev Stat § 38-257 (2021)
2021 Arizona Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Officers and Employees|§ 38-257 - Justification of sureties; officers ineligible as sureties

38-257.  Justification of sureties;  officers ineligible as sureties A. The officer whose duty it is to approve the bond shall not accept or approve it unless the sureties severally justify as required by law. B. A member of the board of supervisors shall not be accepted as surety upon the official bond of any county or precinct officer of the county,  nor shall the sheriff,  treasurer,  recorder,  assessor or county attorney of the same county become sureties upon official bonds for each other. C. Officers shall not approve any bond when the financial standing and ability of the sureties thereon are unknown to them,  or when any of the sureties thereon are assessed for the current year for taxes upon property the aggregate value of which is less than the amount for which the surety becomes liable upon the bond,  unless either: 1. The surety is first examined under oath before the officer authorized to approve the bond concerning the surety's ability to respond in damages.  2. The approving officer,  upon examination and after diligent inquiry into the assets and liabilities of the proposed surety,  is satisfied that the proposed surety is good and possesses ample means to respond in double the amount for which the surety proposes to become liable upon the bond.
AZ Rev Stat § 38-258 (2021)
2021 Arizona Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Officers and Employees|§ 38-258 - Limitation of liability by sureties

38-258.  Limitation of liability by sureties When the penal amount of any bond required to be given amounts to more than one thousand dollars,  the sureties may become severally liable for portions of not less than five hundred dollars thereof,  making in the aggregate at least two sureties for the whole penal sum. If any such bond becomes forfeited,  action may be brought thereon against all or any number of the obligors and judgment entered against them,  either jointly or severally as they are liable. The judgment shall not be entered against a surety severally bound for a greater amount than that for which he is specifically liable by the terms of the bond. Each surety is liable to contribution of his cosureties in proportion to the amount for which he is liable.
AZ Rev Stat § 38-259 (2021)
2021 Arizona Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Officers and Employees|§ 38-259 - Extent of liability

38-259.  Extent of liability Every official bond executed by an officer pursuant to law is in force and obligatory upon the principal and sureties therein for any and all breaches of the conditions thereof committed during the time the officer continues to discharge any of the duties of or hold the office,  whether the breaches are committed or suffered by the principal officer,  his deputy or clerk. When,  except in criminal prosecutions,  a penalty,  forfeiture or liability is imposed on any officer for nonperformance or malperformance of official duty,  the liability therefor attaches to the official bond of the officer,  and to the principal and sureties thereon. Every such bond is in force and obligatory upon the principal and sureties therein for the faithful discharge of all duties which may be required of the officer by any law enacted subsequently to the execution of the bond,  and such condition shall be expressed therein.
AZ Rev Stat § 38-260 (2021)
2021 Arizona Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Officers and Employees|§ 38-260 - Beneficiaries of bond

38-260.  Beneficiaries of bond Every official bond executed by any officer pursuant to law,  is in force and obligatory upon the principal and sureties therein to and for the state and to and for the use and benefit of all persons who may be injured or aggrieved by the wrongful act or default of the officer in his official capacity. Any person so injured or aggrieved may bring an action on the bond in his own name without an assignment thereof.
AZ Rev Stat § 38-261 (2021)
2021 Arizona Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Officers and Employees|§ 38-261 - Successive recoveries

38-261.  Successive recoveries No bond is void on the first recovery of a judgment thereon,  but action may afterwards be brought on the bond from time to time by the state,  or by any person injured,  and judgment recovered thereon until the whole penalty of the bond is exhausted.
AZ Rev Stat § 38-262 (2021)
2021 Arizona Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Officers and Employees|§ 38-262 - Defects in form, approval or filing of bond

38-262.  Defects in form,  approval or filing of bond When an official bond does not contain the substantial matter or conditions required by law,  or when there are any defects in the approval or filing thereof,  such defects shall not discharge the officer and his sureties,  and they are bound to the state,  or party injured,  according to the conditions and obligations required by law to be inserted therein. The state or the injured party may in an action upon the bond,  suggest the defect in the bond,  approval or filing,  and recover the proper and equitable demand or damages from the officer and the persons who intended to become and were included as sureties in the bond.
AZ Rev Stat § 38-263 (2021)
2021 Arizona Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Officers and Employees|§ 38-263 - Additional bond; failure to file

38-263.  Additional bond;  failure to file A. When a surety on any official bond moves from the state,  becomes insolvent or insufficient,  or the penalty on the bond becomes insufficient,  the person approving the bond shall,  of his own motion,  or on the showing of any person,  supported by an affidavit,  at once notify any such officer to appear before him at a time stated,  not less than three nor more than ten days after the service of the notice,  and show cause why he should not execute a new or additional bond with good and sufficient sureties. B. After hearing thereon,  either party aggrieved by the decision may appeal to the judge of the superior court of the county in which the bond is filed,  and in the absence of the judge,  to the court commissioner of the county,  who shall proceed to hear the matter summarily and decide the case,  and such decision shall be final. If the officer fails to appear,  the matter may be heard in his absence,  and if any officer,  when required to do so,  fails to file a new or additional bond,  his office shall be deemed vacant.
AZ Rev Stat § 38-264 (2021)
2021 Arizona Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Officers and Employees|§ 38-264 - Additional bond; terms

38-264.  Additional bond;  terms The new or additional bond shall be in the penalty directed by the person approving the original bond,  in all respects similar to,  and approved by and filed with the same officer as the original bond. When so filed it shall be of like force from the date of its execution and subject the officer and his sureties to the same liabilities as the original bond.
AZ Rev Stat § 38-265 (2021)
2021 Arizona Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Officers and Employees|§ 38-265 - Liability on original and additional bonds

38-265.  Liability on original and additional bonds The original bond is not discharged or affected by the giving of new or additional bond,  but remains of like force and obligation as if the new or additional bond had not been given. The officer and his sureties are liable upon either or both bonds,  and an action may be brought upon either bond,  or separate actions on both bonds,  and the same cause of action may be alleged and judgment recovered in each action.
AZ Rev Stat § 38-266 (2021)
2021 Arizona Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Officers and Employees|§ 38-266 - Judgment on original and additional bonds; contribution of sureties

38-266.  Judgment on original and additional bonds;  contribution of sureties A. If separate judgments are recovered on the bonds for the same cause of action,  the plaintiff is entitled to have execution issued on both judgments,  but he shall only collect by execution or otherwise the amount actually adjudged to him on the same causes of action,  together with the costs of both actions. B. When the sureties on either bond have been compelled to pay any amount of money on account of the principal obligor therein,  they are entitled to recover of the sureties on the remaining bond,  a distributive part of the amount thus paid,  in the proportion which the penalties of the bonds bear one to the other,  and to the amount thus paid,  respectively.
AZ Rev Stat § 38-267 (2021)
2021 Arizona Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Officers and Employees|§ 38-267 - Discharge of sureties

38-267.  Discharge of sureties A. When any sureties on the official bond of an officer wish to be discharged from their liability,  they and such officer may procure such discharge if the officer will execute a new bond to be approved and filed as the original bond. Upon the filing and approval of the new bond,  the first sureties are exonerated from all further liability,  but their bond remains in full force as to all liabilities incurred previous to the approval of the new bond. B. The liability of the sureties in each new bond is in all respects the same and may be enforced in like manner as the liability of the sureties in the original bond.
AZ Rev Stat § 38-268 (2021)
2021 Arizona Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Officers and Employees|§ 38-268 - Bonds of persons appointed to fill vacancies

38-268.  Bonds of persons appointed to fill vacancies Any person appointed to fill a vacancy,  before entering upon the duties of the office,  shall give a bond as required of the officer originally elected or appointed.
AZ Rev Stat § 38-269 (2021)
2021 Arizona Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Officers and Employees|§ 38-269 - Withdrawal of surety; effect on remaining sureties

38-269.  Withdrawal of surety;  effect on remaining sureties A. Any surety on the official bond of any officer may be relieved from liabilities thereon afterwards accruing by complying with the following provisions: 1. The surety shall file with the person authorized by law to approve the official bond,  a sworn statement in writing setting forth his desire to be relieved from liability thereon afterwards arising,  and the reasons therefor. 2. Serve notice of the filing of the statement on the officer named in the official bond,  and make return or affidavit of service thereon and file it with the approving officer. B. Within ten days after the service of the notice,  the person authorized to approve the bond shall make an order declaring such office vacant,  and releasing the surety from all liability thereafter to arise on the official bond,  and the office thereafter is in law vacant,  and shall be immediately filled by election or appointment,  as in other cases of vacancy,  unless the officer has before that time given good and ample surety for the discharge of all his official duties as originally required. C. The release,  discharge,  voluntary withdrawal or incompetency of the surety on any official bond,  does not affect the bond as to the remaining sureties thereon,  or alter or change their liability.
AZ Rev Stat § 38-270 (2021)
2021 Arizona Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Officers and Employees|§ 38-270 - Supplemental bond upon withdrawal of surety; exception

38-270.  Supplemental bond upon withdrawal of surety;  exception A. When a surety on any official bond gives notice of intention to withdraw therefrom,  or is removed or becomes insolvent or becomes otherwise incompetent,  the principal shall,  within ten days after the notice or disqualification,  execute and file,  subject to the same conditions as the original,  a supplemental bond,  in which shall be recited the names of the remaining original sureties,  and the name of the new surety,  and the amount for which he becomes bound,  who is substituted in lieu of the surety released or disqualified. B. When the original bond is given for an amount in excess of the amount required by law,  if the withdrawal or removal of any surety does not reduce the bond below the amount required by law to be secured by sureties,  then no supplemental or additional bond is necessary. Until the filing and approval of the supplemental bond,  the sureties withdrawing or removed on the formed bond are liable for all the acts of their principals.
AZ Rev Stat § 38-271 (2021)
2021 Arizona Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Officers and Employees|§ 38-271 - Effect of withdrawal on liability of surety

38-271.  Effect of withdrawal on liability of surety No surety shall be released from liability for acts,  omissions or causes existing or which arose before the making of the order discharging him,  but legal proceedings may be had therefor in all respects as though no such order had been made.
AZ Rev Stat § 38-272 (2021)
2021 Arizona Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Officers and Employees|§ 38-272 - Affidavit of plaintiff in action to recover on bond that defendant owns real property; notice to recorder

38-272.  Affidavit of plaintiff in action to recover on bond that defendant owns real property;  notice to recorder After an action has been commenced to recover upon any bond required to be given by a public officer,  the plaintiff may file an affidavit stating either positively or on information and belief that the bond was executed by the defendant,  and that the defendant has real property,  designating the county or counties in which it is located. The clerk receiving the affidavit shall certify to the recorder of the county in which the real estate is located the names of the parties to the action,  the name of the court in which the action is pending and the amount claimed in the complaint,  with the date of the commencement of the action.
AZ Rev Stat § 38-273 (2021)
2021 Arizona Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Officers and Employees|§ 38-273 - Recording notice of ownership of real property; lien of judgment

38-273.  Recording notice of ownership of real property;  lien of judgment Upon receiving the certificate the county recorder shall endorse,  file and record it in the same manner as notices of the pendency of an action affecting real estate. Any judgment recovered in such action is a lien upon all real estate belonging to the defendant and located in any county in which the certificate is filed for the amount that the owner thereof is or may be liable upon the judgment,  from the time of filing the certificate.
AZ Rev Stat § 38-291 (2021)
2021 Arizona Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Officers and Employees|§ 38-291 - Vacancy defined

38-291.  Vacancy defined An office shall be deemed vacant from and after the occurrence of any of the following events before the expiration of a term of office: 1. Death of the person holding the office. 2. Insanity of the person holding the office,  when judicially determined. 3. Resignation of the person holding the office and the lawful acceptance of the resignation. 4. Removal from office of the person holding the office,  including the removal of a board or commission member by the appointing power before the expiration of the person's term of office. 5. If the office is elective,  the person holding the office ceasing to be a resident of the state,  or,  if the office is local,  or from a legislative or congressional district,  the person holding the office ceasing to be a resident of the district,  county,  city,  town or precinct for which the person was elected,  or within which the duties of the person's office are required to be discharged. 6. Absence from the state by the person holding the office,  without permission of the legislature,  beyond the period of three consecutive months. 7. The person holding the office ceasing to discharge the duties of office for the period of three consecutive months. 8. Conviction of the person holding the office of a felony or an offense involving a violation of the person's official duties. 9. Failure of the person elected or appointed to the office to file the person's official oath within the time prescribed by law. 10. A decision of a competent tribunal declaring void the election or appointment of the person elected or appointed to the office. 11. Failure of a person to be elected or appointed to the office. 12. A violation of section 38-296 by the person holding the office.
AZ Rev Stat § 38-292 (2021)
2021 Arizona Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Officers and Employees|§ 38-292 - Notice of vacancy in office

38-292.  Notice of vacancy in office When an officer is removed,  declared insane or convicted of a felony or an offense involving a violation of his official duties,  or when his election or appointment is declared void,  the body,  judge or officer before whom the proceedings were had shall give notice thereof to the officer empowered to fill the vacancy.
AZ Rev Stat § 38-293 (2021)
2021 Arizona Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Officers and Employees|§ 38-293 - Effect of conviction of officer

38-293.  Effect of conviction of officer In addition to the penalty fixed by express terms for every neglect or violation of official duty on the part of public officers of the state,  a county,  city,  town,  district or township where it is not so expressly provided,  such officers may,  in the discretion of the court,  be removed from office.
AZ Rev Stat § 38-294 (2021)
2021 Arizona Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Officers and Employees|§ 38-294 - Resignations

38-294.  Resignations Resignations shall be in writing and made as follows: 1. By members of the legislature,  to the presiding officer of the body of which the legislator is a member,  who shall immediately transmit the resignation to the governor. 2. By state officers and officers of the militia,  to the governor. 3. By other officers commissioned by the governor,  to the governor. 4. By county officers,  to the chairman of the board of supervisors of their county. 5. By the chairman of the board of supervisors,  to the county recorder of the county. 6. In cases not otherwise provided for,  by filing the resignation in the office of the secretary of state. 7. By appointive officers,  to the body or officer that appointed them,  unless otherwise provided.
AZ Rev Stat § 38-295 (2021)
2021 Arizona Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Officers and Employees|§ 38-295 - Term of office; discharge of official duties after expiration of term; appointment to fill unexpired term

38-295.  Term of office;  discharge of official duties after expiration of term;  appointment to fill unexpired term A. Unless otherwise specified by law,  every officer holds office at the pleasure of the appointing power. B. Every officer shall continue to discharge the duties of the office,  although the term has expired,  until a successor has qualified. The discharge of the duties of office for appointments requiring senate confirmation shall be governed by section 38-211. C. Vacancies occurring in an office,  or in the membership of a board or commission,  shall be filled only for the unexpired term of the officer or member.
AZ Rev Stat § 38-296 (2021)
2021 Arizona Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Officers and Employees|§ 38-296 - Limitation on filing for election by incumbent of elective office

38-296.  Limitation on filing for election by incumbent of elective office A. Except during the final year of the term being served,  no incumbent of a salaried elective office,  whether holding by election or appointment,  may offer himself for nomination or election to any salaried local,  state or federal office. B. An incumbent of a salaried elected office shall be deemed to have offered himself for nomination or election to a salaried local,  state or federal office on the filing of a nomination paper pursuant to section 16-311,  subsection A. An incumbent of a salaried elected office is not deemed to have offered himself for nomination or election to an office by making a formal declaration of candidacy for the office. C. The resignation of the incumbent elective officer duly filed in writing with the officer,  board or commission having jurisdiction of the office,  if not accepted within ten days,  shall be deemed to have become effective as of the date of filing. D. This section shall not be construed to prohibit a person whose resignation from office has become effective from qualifying as a candidate for another office during the unexpired portion of the term affected by the resignation,  nor shall it apply to any incumbent elective officer who seeks reelection to the same office or to any other public office during the final year of the term to which the person has been so elected. E. A person violating any provision of this section is guilty of misfeasance in office,  and the office held by such person shall be declared vacant.
AZ Rev Stat § 38-296.01 (2021)
2021 Arizona Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Officers and Employees|§ 38-296.01 - Limitation on running for multiple offices

38-296.01.  Limitation on running for multiple offices A. A person is not eligible to be a candidate for nomination or election to more than one public office if the elections for those offices are held on the same day and if the person would be prohibited from serving in the offices simultaneously. B. A person is not eligible to be a candidate for nomination or election to more than one federal office simultaneously. This ineligibility does not apply to candidates for nomination or election to the offices of president and vice president. Candidates for nomination or election to the offices of president or vice president may be candidates for nomination or election to one additional federal office simultaneously. C. A person is not eligible to be a candidate for nomination or election to and is not eligible to serve simultaneously in more than one statewide office. D. A person is not eligible to be a candidate for nomination or election to and is not eligible to serve simultaneously in more than one legislative office. E. A person is not eligible to be a candidate for nomination or election to and is not eligible to serve simultaneously in both a legislative office and a statewide office. F. A person is not eligible to be a candidate for nomination or election to and is not eligible to serve simultaneously on more than one school district governing board,  except that a member of a governing board may be a candidate for nomination or election for any other governing board if the member is serving in the last year of a term of office.
AZ Rev Stat § 38-297 (2021)
2021 Arizona Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Officers and Employees|§ 38-297 - Temporary vacancy resulting from military service; appointive officers and employees

38-297.  Temporary vacancy resulting from military service;  appointive officers and employees Notwithstanding section 38-361,  when a vacancy exists through the induction or order of an appointive officer or employee described in section 38-298 into the armed forces of the United States,  the appointing or employing authority shall inform any person appointed to fill the vacancy that the tenure,  apart from other considerations,  is contingent upon restoration of the former officer or employee as provided in section 38-298.