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Section 57.190 Penalty if sheriff or marshal fails to settle.

MO Rev Stat § 57.190 (2019) (N/A)
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Effective 28 Aug 1939

57.190. Penalty if sheriff or marshal fails to settle. — If any sheriff or marshall shall fail to pay, without delay, the moneys with which he shall become chargeable on the settlement in section 57.180 mentioned, he shall forfeit to the county entitled to the said moneys double the amount with which he is chargeable, to be recovered by motion in the court in which such settlement shall have been made, after ten days' previous notice of such motion.

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(RSMo 1939 § 13840)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 12178; 1919 § 9576; 1909 § 3796

CROSS REFERENCE:

Fees collected for others, account to be kept, 50.470, 50.480

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