South Carolina Code 14-17-730. Penalty for not paying over funds, fines, and forfeitures; penalty for failure to give notice to county
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Terms Used In South Carolina Code 14-17-730
- Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
- clerk: as used in this title , signifies the clerk of the court where the action is pending and, in the Supreme Court or court of appeals, the clerk of the county mentioned in the title of the complaint or in another county to which the court may have changed the place of trial, unless otherwise specified. See South Carolina Code 14-1-40
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.