- 1. The township collector, on or before the fifth day of each month, shall make and file in the office of the county clerk a statement showing the amount of taxes collected by him for all purposes during the preceding month, which statement shall be sworn to by such township collector before the county clerk, or some other officer authorized to administer oaths.
- 2. On or before the tenth day in each month, the township collector, after deducting his commissions, shall pay over to the county treasurer and ex officio collector all state and county taxes collected by him during the preceding month, as shown by the statement required by this section, and take duplicate receipts therefor, one of which he shall retain and the other he shall file with the county clerk; and the county clerk shall charge the treasurer with the amounts so receipted for, to be accounted for at the annual settlement.
- 3. The township collector, in like manner, on or before the twentieth day of each month, shall pay over to the township trustee and ex officio treasurer after deducting his commission all township taxes and funds of every kind belonging to the township, collected by him during the preceding month, and take duplicate receipts therefor, one of which he shall retain and the other he shall deposit with the township clerk, who shall charge the township trustee and ex officio treasurer with the amount so receipted.
- 4. The township collector shall receive a commission of two and one-half percent on the first forty thousand dollars collected; one percent on the next forty thousand dollars collected; and three-fourths of one percent on the remainder of all moneys collected by him.
(RSMo 1939 § 14014, A. 1949 S.B. 1024)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 12337; 1919 § 13250; 1909 § 11738