Title 204 · NRS Chapter 204

Penalty for neglect or refusal to pay over.

Citation: NRS 204.040

Section: 204.204.040

NRS

204.040

Penalty for neglect or refusal to pay over.

If any clerk, justice of the peace, sheriff, constable or other officer, who may receive any fine or forfeiture, shall refuse or neglect to pay over the same according to law, and within 30 days after the receipt thereof, he or she shall, in addition to being imprisoned and punished as provided by law, be liable upon his or her official bond for the amount thereof, with 50 percent damages and interest, to be recovered in like manner as for failing to pay over money received on execution.

[1911 C&P § 394; RL § 6659; NCL § 10346]