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Statutes > Missouri > T07 > C095 > 95_535All fees to be deposited in treasury--duty of comptroller(St. Louis City).
95.535. All public officers, excepting the publicadministrator and notaries public, in the city of St. Louis shallbe compensated for their services by salaries only. It shall bethe duty of any public officer in such city to charge on behalfof the city every fee that accrues in or to his office and toreceive the same and all fees, fines, costs, commissions,penalties and charges that may be taxed in his office. All suchfees, fines, costs, commissions, penalties and charges imposed bylaw and collected by such officer shall be paid into the citytreasury and become the property of the city. The comptroller ofsuch city shall determine by a proper order the current or futuredates or periods when such fees, fines, costs, commissions,penalties or charges so collected by any of the officers in saidcity shall be paid and turned over to the city treasury and howthey shall be accounted for. The comptroller shall require asworn or affirmed statement by each public officer, showing suchitems collected in detail, their source character and theaggregate amount thereof, and shall require a copy of such swornor affirmed statement to be filed in the office of the cityregister. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to includethe performance by the sheriff of his duties as trustee in anydeed of trust or mortgage with power of sale, within the term"services" used herein.
(L. 1945 p. 1512 § 1)
