{"data":{"id":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-14-17-730","jurisdiction":"us-sc","citation":"S.C. Code Ann. § 14-17-730","heading":"Penalty for not paying over funds, fines, and forfeitures; penalty for failure to give notice to county.","body":"If any clerk fail to pay over fines and forfeitures received by him or any moneys paid to him by order or permission of the court within five days after demand of the person entitled to receive the same, he shall forfeit and pay five per cent per month until the same shall be paid over, to be recovered, together with such amount received, by action on his official bond, besides being liable to rule and attachment as for contempt. If he shall fail to give to some member of the governing body of the county the notice required by law to be given he shall forfeit and pay double the amount so detained without notice.","path":["Title 14 - COURTS","CHAPTER 17 Clerks of Courts","ARTICLE 7 Accounts and Disposition of Money"],"source_url":"https://www.scstatehouse.gov/code/t14c017.php","current_through":"2025 Session of the General Assembly","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-02T06:39:54Z","sha256":"d6cab189cfed9b3de29fdc4798e2cee8e92d6f1a2657d8c17d1da62cec618ffa","source_id":"us-sc","stale":false,"prev":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-14-17-725","next":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-14-17-740"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}