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Section 14-17-740. Annual accounts of fines and forfeitures; suit to recover upon failure to account.

SC Code § 14-17-740 (2019) (N/A)
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The clerk shall return to the governing body of the county, on or before the last day of October in every year, an account, upon oath, in duplicate, of all fines and forfeitures inflicted in his court during the preceding year and of the amounts had and received by him and of the manner in which such fines were disposed of, under penalty of two hundred dollars, to be recovered against any clerk for default herein by action. The governing body of the county shall request the Attorney General or solicitor, as the case may be, to sue for and recover such sum of every clerk that may fail to render such account.

HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 15-1784; 1952 Code Section 15-1784; 1942 Code Section 3609; 1932 Code Section 3609; Civ. C. '22 Section 2153; Civ. C. '12 Section 1332; Civ. C. '02 Section 934; G. S. 756; R. S. 806; 1812 (5) 710 Section 27; 1819 (6) 139 Section 14.

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Section 14-17-740. Annual accounts of fines and forfeitures; suit to recover upon failure to account.