Section 10-21-12 - Endorsement of warrant exceeding amount of tax payable--Receipts taken fromtaxpayer.
10-21-12. Endorsement of warrant exceeding amount of tax payable--Receipts taken from taxpayer. When any person desiring to pay any taxes due and unpaid shall present a warrant to the treasurer of any county in payment for such tax, which shall exceed the amount that such treasurer is authorized to receive in warrants in payment for such tax, he shall endorse on the back of such warrant in part payment the amount he is authorized by law to receive, and date the same. Such treasurer shall take two receipts from the holder of such warrant for the amount so endorsed and paid, showing the date of the endorsement, a full description of such warrant, including the date thereof, to whom given, the amount for which it was given, and all the endorsements thereon; one of which receipts he shall forthwith file with the county auditor, the other he shall retain as his voucher. A copy of such receipt shall be forwarded to the taxing district involved with the next disbursement of tax collections made to such taxing district.
Source: SL 1868-9, ch 25, § 94; PolC 1877, ch 28, § 93; CL 1887, § 1654; RPolC 1903, § 2232; RC 1919, § 6948; SDC 1939, § 57.1010.