Title X TAXATION AND REVENUE Chapter 136 • Effective - 28 Aug 1945 136.180. Issuance of distress warrant — failure — penalty. — The director of revenue shall, immediately after such delinquency shall occur, issue a warrant of distress against such delinquent and his sureties, directed to the sheriff of the proper county, or if he shall be disqualified to act, then to the sheriff of some adjoining county, who is authorized and required to execute the same, and who, together with his sureties, shall be liable on his official bond in the same manner and to the same extent as if the writ were to be executed in his own county, stating therein the amount due and the penalties and forfeitures thereon accrued; and upon any failure by the director of revenue to issue the distress warrant herein provided for within thirty days, he and his sureties shall become liable on his official bond for all losses which the state may sustain through such failures. -------- (L. 1945 p. 1428 § 27)
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