2013 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 14 - Courts
CHAPTER 17 - CLERKS OF COURTS
SECTION 14-17-730. Penalty for not paying over funds, fines and forfeitures; penalty for failure to give notice to county.
If any clerk fail to pay over fines and forfeitures received by him or any moneys paid to him by order or permission of the court within five days after demand of the person entitled to receive the same, he shall forfeit and pay five per cent per month until the same shall be paid over, to be recovered, together with such amount received, by action on his official bond, besides being liable to rule and attachment as for contempt. If he shall fail to give to some member of the governing body of the county the notice required by law to be given he shall forfeit and pay double the amount so detained without notice.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 15-1783; 1952 Code Section 15-1783; 1942 Code Sections 3613, 3614; 1932 Code Sections 3613, 3614; Civ. C. '22 Sections 2157, 2158; Civ. C. '12 Sections 1336, 1337; Civ. C. '02 Sections 938, 939; G. S. 760, 761; R. S. 810, 811; 1839 (11) 111 Section 28.
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