Effective – 28 Aug 1988
67.626. Lien allowed, when, procedure — release of, when — recorder’s fee, amount — violations, penalty. — 1. In any case in which any tax, interest or penalty imposed under sections 67.601 to 67.626 is not paid when due, the commission or its designated agent may file for record in the recorder’s office of the city or the county where the business giving rise to the tax, interest or penalty is located, or in which the person owing the tax, interest or penalty resides, a notice of lien specifying the amount of tax, interest or penalty due and the name of the person liable for the same. From the time of filing any such notice, the amount of the tax specified in such notice shall have the force and effect of the lien of a judgment against the person named in the notice of lien and against the personal property of the business of such person for the amount specified in such notice.
2. Such lien may be released by filing for record in the office of the recorder where the lien was originally filed a release of the lien executed by a duly authorized agent of the commission upon payment of the tax, interest and penalty due, or upon receipt by the commission of security sufficient to secure payment thereof, or by final judgment holding such lien to have been erroneously imposed.
3. Each recorder shall receive a fee of three dollars for the filing of each notice of lien and a fee of one dollar and fifty cents for each release of lien filed for record. Such amounts shall be paid from funds collected by the commission. The commission is authorized to collect an additional penalty from each taxpayer equal to the cost of filing a notice of lien or release with respect to such taxpayer.
4. Any person violating any of the provisions of sections 67.601 to 67.626 shall be deemed guilty of a class D misdemeanor.
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(L. 1988 S.B. 424)