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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>68039</law_id><section_number>58.1-3126</section_number><catch_line>Bond of deputy; liability thereon</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="58.1">Taxation</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="III">Local Taxes</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="31">Local Officers</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="2">Treasurers</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The treasurer may require from any deputy such <span class="dictionary">bond</span> with <span class="dictionary">surety</span> as he shall deem necessary for his indemnity. If any deputy fails to collect or, having collected, fails to pay over to his principal, any taxes, levies or funds which he ought to have collected or may have received, such deputy and his sureties shall be liable to such principal, upon <span class="dictionary">motion</span>, for the amount of the deficiency in such taxes, levies or funds, together with <span class="dictionary">damages</span> thereon at the rate of ten percent per month from the time each payment should have been made. They shall also be liable to such principal for all <span class="dictionary">damages</span> sustained by him by reason of any other <span class="dictionary">default</span> or misconduct in office by such deputy.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 58-918; 1984, c. 675.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
