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§ 4769. SECURITY OF THE REVENUE. Tit. XIV, Ch. 22.
SEC. 4769. Payments to state treasurer.
1 The treasurer of each county shall, on or before the fifteenth
2 day of each month, prepare a sworn statement of the amount of money
3 in his hands on the last day of the preceding month belonging to the
4 state treasury, and forward the same by mail to the auditor of state,
5 and shall pay into the state treasury, on or before the fifteenth day
6 of each month, all money due the state remaining in his hands on the
7 last day of the preceding month ; he shall also, at any time when di-
8 rected by the auditor of state, forthwith pay into the state treasury,
9 or treasury of any county, any or all the money due the state and re-
10 maining in his hands, and the treasurer of state or any county treas-
11 urer is hereby required to receive on such payments the same kinds
12 of money and notes which the county treasurer is authorized and re-
13 quired by law to receive in payment of taxes. In case the treasurer
14 of any county shall fail to prepare and forward the statement re-
15 quired in this section, he shall forfeit and pay for each and every
16 failure a sum not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred
17 dollars, to be recovered in an action brought in the name of the state
18 auditor against him and his bondsmen. The provisions of this section
19 relating to the payment of money into the state treasury shall not be
20 applicable to money collected under the provisions of chapter seven-
21 teen, title eleven, relating to motor vehicles.
[R., '60, § 799; C, '73, § 914; C, '97, § 1459; 39 G. A., ch.
155, § 3.]