2012 Missouri Revised Statutes
TITLE X TAXATION AND REVENUE
Chapter 139 Payment and Collection of Current Taxes
Section 139.270 Refusal to pay--forfeiture--distress warrant.
Refusal to pay--forfeiture--distress warrant.
139.270. 1. If any county collector, or ex officio county collector, fails or refuses to pay the taxes and license fees into the county treasuries and to the director of revenue as provided in section 139.210, he shall forfeit his commissions on the amount wrongfully withheld and in addition shall pay a penalty of ten percent of the amount wrongfully withheld.
2. The director of revenue within thirty days shall issue a distress warrant for such state taxes and penalties, and the prosecuting attorney within thirty days shall proceed to collect the county, school, road and municipal taxes by suit on the official bond of the defaulting collector.
(RSMo 1939 11099, A.L. 1945 p. 1907, A. 1949 S.B. 1024)Prior revisions: 1929 9928; 1919 12920; 1909 11474
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