S.C. Code § 14-17-740

Current through 2024 Act No. 225.
Section 14-17-740 - Annual accounts of fines and forfeitures; suit to recover upon failure to account

The clerk shall return to the governing body of the county, on or before the last day of October in every year, an account, upon oath, in duplicate, of all fines and forfeitures inflicted in his court during the preceding year and of the amounts had and received by him and of the manner in which such fines were disposed of, under penalty of two hundred dollars, to be recovered against any clerk for default herein by action. The governing body of the county shall request the Attorney General or solicitor, as the case may be, to sue for and recover such sum of every clerk that may fail to render such account.

S.C. Code § 14-17-740

1819 (6) 139 Section 14; 1812 (5) 710 Section 27; R. S. 806; G. S. 756; Civ. C. '02 Section 934; Civ. C. '12 Section 1332; Civ. C. '22 Section 2153; 1932 Code Section 3609; 1942 Code Section 3609; 1952 Code Section 15-1784; 1962 Code Section 15-1784.