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Statutes > Missouri > T32 > C483 > 483_160Clerks of courts to deliver reports to successors.
483.160. 1. Hereafter it shall be the duty of all courtclerks to keep in their offices a catalogue of all reportsbelonging to their respective offices, and they shall deliver oraccount to their successors in office for all such reports.
2. And upon failure to so deliver the same, the prosecutingattorney of the proper city or county or the attorney generalshall institute a suit, to the use of the state, against saidclerk, or on the bond of said clerk, and in case of recovery insaid suit, recovery shall be three times the value of saidreports that said clerk shall have failed to deliver.
(RSMo 1939 § 2098, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)Prior revisions: 1929 § 1936; 1919 § 2434; 1909 § 3954
Effective 1-2-79
