The director of the department of environmental management shall give bond to the general treasurer for the faithful discharge of the director’s duty under this chapter with sufficient sureties to the acceptance of the general treasurer, in the sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000); and any person, having a claim against the director for any breach or neglect of the director’s official duty, may have a remedy therefor by a suit on his or her bond, to be prosecuted in the name of the general treasurer.