243.490. County collector liable, when--penalty. - Missouri Statutes

County collector liable, when--penalty.

243.490. If any county collector of the revenue refuses,fails or neglects to make prompt payment of the tax or any partthereof collected under this chapter to the county treasurer asprovided in said chapter, then he shall pay a penalty of tenpercent on the amount of his delinquency; such penalty shall atonce become due and payable and both he and the sureties on hisbond shall be liable therefor on his aforesaid bond.

(RSMo 1939 § 12439)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 10849; 1919 § 4516