2101.10 Liability of sheriffs, coroners, and constables for failure to pay over moneys. - Ohio Statutes

2101.10 Liability of sheriffs, coroners, and constables for failure to pay over moneys.

No sheriff, coroner, or constable shall refuse to pay moneys, collected by him, to the probate judge or other person, when so directed by the judge. For refusal to pay over moneys collected, such officer shall be summoned as provided in section 2101.09 of the Revised Code and amerced for the use of the parties interested, in the amount required to be collected by such process, with ten per cent thereon. The judge may enforce the collection of such amercement by execution or other process, by imprisonment as for contempt of court, or both. The delinquent officer and his sureties shall also be liable on his official bond for the amount of the amercement at the suit of the person interested.

Effective Date: 10-01-1953