If any collector or agent shall, directly or indirectly, purchase any part of any real or personal property sold for the nonpayment of taxes, he and his sureties shall be liable on his official bond for all damages sustained by the owner of such property, and all such sales shall be void. In addition thereto, the officer so offending shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined in a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000). History —Political Code, 1902, § 346.
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