Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 — Taxation
36 M.R.S. § 759
Accounting; penalties
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Each tax collector shall, on the last day of each month, pay to the municipal treasurer all moneys collected by the tax collector, and once in 2 months at least shall exhibit to the municipal officers a just and true account of all moneys received on taxes committed to, and excise taxes collected by, the tax collector and produce the treasurer's receipt for money paid by the tax collector. For each neglect, the tax collector forfeits to the municipality $100 to be recovered by the municipal officers of that municipality in a civil action.
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In this chapter (40 sections)
- 712 · Certificate of assessment
- 713 · Supplemental assessments
- 713-A · Certain supplemental assessments
- 713-B · Penalties assessed as supplemental assessments
- 714 · State-municipal revenue sharing aid
- 721 · Purpose
- 722 · Definitions
- 723 · Applicability
- 724 · Base land values
- 725 · Sales data
- 726 · Valuation of land
- 751 · County taxes; collection
- 752 · Payment
- 753 · Municipal tax commitment; form
- 754 · -- lost or destroyed
- 755 · Bond
- 756 · Compensation
- 757 · Receipts for taxes
- 757-A · Collector to furnish certificate to boat registration applicants
- 758 · Notification to assessors of invalid tax
- 759 · Accounting; penalties
- 759-A · Prohibition on commingling funds
- 760 · Perfection of collections
- 760-A · Minor or burdensome amounts
- 761 · Failure; action
- 762 · Collections completed by new collectors
- 763 · Settlement procedure; removal from municipality; resignation
- 764 · Incapacity
- 765 · Death
- 766 · Warrant for completion of collection; form
- 801 · Sheriff may collect taxes
- 802 · Proceedings by sheriff
- 803 · Sheriff's duty in respect to warrant; alias warrant
- 841 · Abatement procedures
- 841-A · Abatement by municipal officers; procedure
- 841-B · Land Classification Appeals Board; purpose; composition
- 841-C · Hearing
- 842 · Notice of decision
- 843 · Appeals
- 843-A · Appeals to Forestry Appeal Board