§11-44-102. Certain persons not to receive profits, wages, etc., from municipality.

No commissioner, officer or employee of the city or town whatever, and no person who is related by consanguinity or affinity in the third degree or any nearer degree under the civil law to any commissioner, officer, or employee of the city or town drawing from the city or town a salary equal to or in excess of $75.00 per month, no partnership, any of whose members is so related to such commissioner, officer or employee and no corporation, any stockholder in which owning as much as five percent of its capital stock is so related to any such commissioner, officer or employee shall by contract or by employment or by trading or other business dealing receive any profit or emolument, wage, or salary or other compensation from the city or town.

(Acts 1911, No. 281, p. 330; Code 1940, T. 37, §116.)