§ 14-15-710 - Delivery of records to successor.
14-15-710. Delivery of records to successor.
(a) It shall be the duty of the county surveyor, or other person having the official record of the surveyor in his possession, to deliver up the record to his successor whenever he may be applied to for that purpose.
(b) If the surveyor, or the person having the possession of such record, shall refuse to deliver it to such successor when demanded, he shall forfeit and pay the sum of one dollar ($1.00) per day for every day he may retain it after demanded, to be recovered by a civil action before any justice of the peace, in the name of any person who may sue for it, one-half (1/2) to the use of the person suing and one-half (1/2) to the use of the county.