Section 40-5-23

List of insolvents and list of errors in assessments - Reports; publication; advertisement costs.

The tax collector shall in each year report on oath to the Department of Revenue at Montgomery, and to the county commission at the June meeting thereof, a list on a form prescribed by the Department of Revenue of the persons from whom the taxes assessed against them cannot be collected, with the amount of taxes, state and county assessed against each, which shall be termed "list of insolvents," and a list of such persons as have been overassessed or wrongfully assessed, with the taxes, state and county assessed against each, which shall be termed "list of errors in assessments," and any taxes which may be in litigation, in order that the same may be passed upon and determined by the commission. The tax collector shall cause the said "list of insolvents" to be published twice during the month of July following the submission thereof at the first regular meeting in June of the county commission. Said publication shall be made in a daily newspaper printed and published in said county or, if no such paper is published therein, then in a weekly newspaper published in said county; if there is neither a daily nor weekly newspaper of any sort published in said county, then he shall post said "list of insolvents" in the courthouse and in three other conspicuous places in said county and keep said posting available for the public during the entire month of July. A failure to publish said list as here required shall constitute a misdemeanor.

One third of the cost of advertisement provided in this section shall be paid out of the General Fund of the state by warrant drawn by the Comptroller, and two thirds thereof shall be paid out of the general fund of the county in which said advertisement is made.

(Acts 1935, No. 194, p. 256; Code 1940, T. 51, §209.)