108.260. Bond issues--annual statement--call before maturity--failure to make statement, penalty.

Bond issues--annual statement--call before maturity--failure to makestatement, penalty.

108.260. 1. It shall be the duty of the clerk, secretary,auditor or comptroller of any county, city, village or schooldistrict, on the first day of July, A.D. 1897, to furnish thestate auditor a statement verified by his oath, of all the bondsand coupons of such county, city, town, village or schooldistrict theretofore registered by the state auditor and thenoutstanding, with all the details as to date of issue andmaturity, rate of interest, place of redemption and purpose forwhich issued and the said officer shall, annually thereafter, onor about the first day of January, make a statement of the bondsand coupons retired by his county, city, town, village or schooldistrict since the last report.

2. The state auditor shall make entry of the bonds soreported as retired, and where bonds registered by the stateauditor have been or shall be issued subject to call beforematurity, and where such call shall be made, it shall be the dutyof the clerk, secretary, auditor or comptroller, thirty daysbefore the same are payable, to notify the state auditor of theintention of such county, city, town, village or school districtto pay off such bonds called and such other description as tofully identify the same. And any such clerk, secretary, auditoror comptroller of any such county, city, town, village or schooldistrict who shall fail to make any statement required by thissection shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, onconviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not less than tennor more than one hundred dollars.

(RSMo 1939 § 3301)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 2914; 1919 § 1062; 1909 § 1274