(a) All fines and forfeitures not especially otherwise appropriated shall belong to the county in which such fines or forfeitures may be imposed or incurred.
(b) They shall be paid to the treasurer of the county or the director of finance by the officer collecting or chargeable with them.
(c) If such officer neglects this duty for 3 months after the officer receives or becomes chargeable with any fine or forfeiture, the officer shall pay in addition to the amount thereof the interest at the rate of 20 percent per annum, to be computed from the time the fine or forfeiture was received or the officer became chargeable therewith.
(d) The whole may be recovered in an action in the name of the State for the use of the county to which the same may belong.
16 Del. Laws, c. 310, § 1; Code 1915, § 1078; Code 1935, § 1244; 9 Del. C. 1953, § 377; 55 Del. Laws, c. 85, § 3H; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1.
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