31-3218. RECEIPT FOR FEES. Every officer upon receiving any fees for official duty or services, may be required by the person making the same to make out in writing and deliver to such person a particular account of such fees, specifying for what they respectively accrued, and shall receipt for the same; and if he refuses or neglects to do so, when required, or shall receive illegal fees, he shall be liable to the party paying for three (3) times the amount so paid.
History:
[(31-3218) R.S., sec. 2144; reen. R.C. & C.L., sec. 2134; C.S., sec. 3719; I.C.A., sec. 30-2718.]