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§59-1-31. Monthly Payments; How Credited; Report Required

Except for the funds designated in section twenty-eight-a of this article, each of the officers named in section twenty-nine of this article shall at the end of each month pay into the county treasury all fees, costs, percentages, penalties, commissions, compensation, income and all other perquisites of whatever kind collected by his office during such […]

§59-1-32. Reduction or Remission of Fees Prohibited; Penalty for Default in Payment

None of the officers named in section twenty-nine of this article shall be authorized to make any reduction, abatement or remission of any of the fees, costs, percentages, penalties, commissions, allowances, compensation, income or any other perquisites of whatever kind that it may be their duty to charge and collect. If any such officer shall […]

§59-1-33. Deposit for Costs

When any action at law, suit in equity or other proceeding is instituted, the clerk of the court wherein the same is instituted shall require from the plaintiff a reasonable deposit of money for the services to be performed by himself or any other officer named in this article: Provided, however, That such clerk shall […]

§59-1-25. Accounting for Fees

Every sheriff or collector to whom such fee bills are so delivered shall, on or before July 1, next after such delivery, account therefor with the officer entitled thereto by returning such as he may not have collected, with the indorsement thereon of the words "No property found," and by paying to such officer or […]

§59-1-26. Limitation on Distress or Suit for Collection of Fees

No fee, when a fee bill has not been issued, shall be collected by distress or suit after ten years from the time when the service was done that is charged for therein; or, if a fee bill has been issued, after ten years from the time when the last fee bill was issued.

§59-1-28. Use and Disposition of Fees of Sheriffs, Clerks and Prosecuting Attorneys

Except for the funds designated in section twenty-eight-a of this article, all fees, costs, percentages, penalties, commissions, allowances, compensation, income and all other perquisites of whatever kind which by law may now or hereafter be collected or received as compensation for services by any clerk of the county commission, sheriff, clerk of the circuit court […]