If any employee of the Register of Chancery Office neglects or refuses to pay over all fees, costs, allowances and perquisites that employee receives and collects for use of the State, or fails to collect the fees required to be paid by law, or demands or receives from any person any fee or allowance greater than is provided by law, he or she may be prosecuted under any applicable provision of this Code. Such employee shall also be liable in a civil action for the amount of such fees, costs, allowances and perquisites as he or she may have thus illegally withheld, failed to collect or improperly received.