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2020 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees
Chapter 1 - General Provisions
Section 8-1-40. Failure of clerk, sheriff, or magistrate to pay over fines or penalties.
Universal Citation: SC Code § 8-1-40 (2020)
Any clerk of the circuit court, county sheriff or magistrate who shall neglect or refuse immediately to pay over, as required, any and all fines and penalties collected by him in any criminal cause or proceeding shall, on conviction thereof, be subject to a fine of not less than one hundred nor more than one thousand dollars and imprisonment for not less than three nor more than six months and shall be dismissed from office and disqualified from holding any office of trust and profit under this State.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 50-4; 1952 Code Section 50-4; 1942 Code Section 1519; 1932 Code Section 1519; Cr. C. '22 Section 467; Cr. C. '12 Section 540; Cr. C. '02 Section 383; G. S. 2553; R. S. 300; 1871 (15) 656.
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