As Amended
SEC. 31-19-3. Penalty on officials for violations.
For failure to comply with the provisions of this chapter by any officer, any taxpayer may institute a suit for
damages on the bond of such official who is required to give a bond; and in addition thereto, such official may be
punished for such failure as for a misdemeanor, and on conviction be fined not more than five hundred dollars or
imprisoned in the county jail for six months, or both.
SOURCES: Codes, Hemingway's 1921 Supp. Sec. 6662e; 1930, Sec. 5981; 1942, Sec. 4323; Laws, 1918, ch. 209.