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Section 271.360 – Penalty for failure to perform duty.

Effective – 28 Aug 1939 271.360. Penalty for failure to perform duty. — Any printer, clerk, associate circuit judge or other officer, failing to perform the duties enjoined on him by this chapter, shall forfeit to the county not less than five nor more than fifty dollars, and shall otherwise be liable to the party […]

Section 271.370 – Fines, penalties and forfeitures to go into school fund.

Effective – 28 Aug 1939 271.370. Fines, penalties and forfeitures to go into school fund. — All fines, penalties and forfeitures, also all moneys, except fees collected from the taker-up of any stray, under the provisions of this chapter, shall be paid into the county treasury, and become a part of the permanent school fund […]

Section 271.220 – Certain names to be appended to the tax books.

Effective – 28 Aug 1939 271.220. Certain names to be appended to the tax books. — The clerk shall, annually, at the time of making up the tax book, append thereto a list of the names of all persons appearing on the stray fund record book, with the several items set opposite each name, except […]

Section 271.230 – Responsibility of collector.

Effective – 28 Aug 1939 271.230. Responsibility of collector. — The county collector shall be responsible on his bond for the faithful collection and payment into the county treasury of all moneys charged against any person in favor of the county school fund, according to the provisions of the stray law, and shall collect and […]

Section 271.240 – Delinquent stray list returned.

Effective – 28 Aug 1939 271.240. Delinquent stray list returned. — The collector shall not sell any property of the taker-up, except the stray, until he shall have returned the delinquent tax list, at which time he shall also return the delinquent stray list under oath that he has used due diligence to collect the […]

Section 271.260 – Taker-up not liable, when.

Effective – 28 Aug 1939 271.260. Taker-up not liable, when. — If any stray, legally taken up, get away or die, without the fault of the taker-up, he shall not be liable for the same. ­­——– (RSMo 1939 § 14523) Prior revisions: 1929 § 12849; 1919 § 4339; 1909 § 840

Section 271.270 – Taker-up may use stray, how.

Effective – 28 Aug 1939 271.270. Taker-up may use stray, how. — Any person may use or work a stray legally taken up by him, if he do so with care and moderation, but shall not remove the same from the county more than five days at a time, under penalty of twenty dollars, to […]

Section 271.280 – Recovery of damages by owner, when.

Effective – 28 Aug 1939 271.280. Recovery of damages by owner, when. — If any person sell, swap, take out of this state or willfully or negligently injure or abuse any stray before the legal title thereto shall have vested in him, then the owner, if he shall appear and prove such stray within one […]

Section 271.290 – Reclamation by owner before posting, how.

Effective – 28 Aug 1939 271.290. Reclamation by owner before posting, how. — If, after the setting up of notices, the owner claim and prove any stray legally taken up before the same shall have been posted, he shall be entitled to receive the same on payment of the fees allowed the taker-up for taking […]