(a) Any county official charged with any duty in connection with the holding of delinquent tax sales and tax resales who fails to perform such duty, shall be guilty of malfeasance in office and upon conviction thereof shall be removed from office. In addition, any official who fails to perform such duty shall forfeit all salary or compensation for his services for a period of three months after such failure might, with due diligence, have been discovered; and any official who approves, or votes to approve, a claim for salary or compensation, or issues, registers or pays a warrant for salary or compensation, in violation of the foregoing, shall be liable upon his official bond for the payment of such salary or compensation.
(b) The provisions of this section relate to the duty of the board of county commissioners and the county excise board to provide funds for preparing and advertising delinquent tax sales and tax resales, and to the duty of the county treasurer to prepare, advertise and hold such delinquent tax sales and tax resales. However, no county official shall be held responsible for failure to hold a tax resale when prevented from doing so by prior failure to hold a delinquent tax sale, or for failure to provide more than a substantial portion of the funds necessary to pay the cost of advertising a tax resale.
Laws 1965, c. 501, § 2. Renumbered from § 24400 by Laws 1988, c. 162, § 161, eff. Jan. 1, 1992 and Laws 1991, c. 249, § 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1992.
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