(1) If —
(a)
there has been a misapplication of funds of a local government or of local
government property; and
(b) any
council member or employee of the local government, has wilfully or through
culpable negligence misapplied the funds or property or connived at or
concurred in the misapplication,
that council member or
employee is personally liable to pay the amount misapplied to the local
government.
(2) If 2 or more
people are liable to pay the amount misapplied, their liability is joint and
several.
(3) A person’s
liability to pay the amount misapplied continues whether or not the person is
still a council member or employee of the local government.