Miss. Code Ann. § 25-1-71

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Miss. Code Ann. § 25-1-71

Official statutory text

All money deposited in a bank or with any depository by or for a tax collector or other officer having the custody of public funds, state, county, municipal, levee board, road districts, drainage districts, or school districts, whether the same be deposited in the name of the officer as an individual or as an officer or in the name of any other person, is prima facie public money and a trust fund, and is not liable to be taken by the general creditors of the officer or by the creditors of the depository. Whenever any corporation doing a banking business of whose property and banking business the banking examiner has taken possession as provided by law, it shall be the duty of such banking examiner, or his agent in charge, out of the first money coming into his hands to immediately pay to the tax collector or other officer having the custody of such funds the full amount thereof, as far as possible. On failure so to do, the chancery court of the county where said corporation was doing business, or the chancellor thereof in vacation, shall on ten (10) days’ notice require the payment of all, or such part thereof as is on hand, until the full amount due is paid. Nothing herein contained shall in any manner vary or affect the liability of such officer or his bondsmen.

Status: in_force

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