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1997 Florida Statutes

SECTION 21
Failure to pay over money.

30.21  Failure to pay over money.--If any sheriff shall fail to collect or pay over fines, fees, costs, or other moneys adjudged to the state which he or she shall have been by proper process directed to collect, the sheriff shall forfeit his or her commissions and also be liable to a fine of $50, to be recovered by motion before the circuit court, after 10 days' notice, and the sheriff's sureties shall also be liable for the amount of such moneys upon his or her bond as sheriff.

History.--s. 9, ch. 217, 1849; RS 1252; GS 1680; RGS 2888; CGL 4585; s. 182, ch. 95-147.