82.670. Who to pay in case fees are insufficient for the maintenance of office. - Missouri Statutes

Who to pay in case fees are insufficient for the maintenance ofoffice.

82.670. In the event that the fees so collected, deductedand retained by the collector out of the amounts so collected forstate, city and school are insufficient to pay and discharge, infull, the amount required and necessary for all salaries,clerical hire and other expenses and costs of collecting therevenue, the deficiency shall be paid by the state, city andschool, respectively, out of the undistributed collected taxes inthe collector's hands due the state, city and school,respectively, in proportion that the amount of revenue socollected for each bears to the total amount so collected forall, as such amounts shall be reflected in and by the saidsettlement made annually on the first Monday in March; and forthe purpose of paying and discharging such deficiency, thecollector shall deduct and retain out of such undistributedcollected taxes, the said proportionate amounts, and use same topay and discharge said deficiency; provided, that the comptrollerof the city may reasonably limit the expenditures of said officeand the cost of collecting the revenue; provided, further, thatnothing in this section contained shall be construed as repealingthe law requiring the collector to deposit, daily, in the citytreasury, all moneys collected for the city, nor the lawrequiring him to deposit, weekly, with the state treasurer, allrevenue collected for the state. The collector of the revenue,under this section, shall keep at all times in his office anotary public, who shall administer oaths and take notarialacknowledgments in connection with such office without charge.

(L. 1945 p. 1311 § 8)