§ 128-13. Officers compensated from fees in certain counties to render statement; penalty; proceeds to school fund.
§128‑13. Officers compensated from fees in certain counties to renderstatement; penalty; proceeds to school fund.
Every clerk of the superiorcourt, register of deeds, sheriff, coroner, surveyor, or other county officer,whose compensation or services performed shall be derived from fees, shallrender to the board of county commissioners of their respective counties, onthe first Monday in December of each year, a statement, verified under oath,showing: first, the total gross amount of all fees collected during thepreceding fiscal year; second, the total amount paid out during the precedingfiscal year for clerical or office assistance. Any county officer, subject tothis section, who refuses or fails to file such report as above provided, on orbefore the first Monday in December, shall be subject to a fine of twenty‑five dollars ($25.00) and ten dollars ($10.00) additional for each day orfraction of a day such failure shall continue. The board of countycommissioners shall assess and collect the penalty above provided for, andsupply same to the general school fund of the county. The first report underthis section shall be for the fiscal year beginning December 12, 1913.
This section applies only tothe Counties of Anson, Bertie, Bladen, Cabarrus, Carteret, Chowan, Currituck,Duplin, Halifax, Harnett, Haywood, Hertford, Johnston, Jones, Moore, Pender,Perquimans, Pitt, Randolph, Richmond, Rowan, Scotland, Union, Vance, Warren,Washington, Wayne, Wilson. (1913, c. 97; Ex. Sess., 1913, c. 10; 1935, c. 390.)