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    SECTION 3808

    Forfeiture of amount of penalty where suit is neglected

    Education (EDN) CHAPTER 16, TITLE 5, ARTICLE 77

    § 3808. Forfeiture of amount of penalty where suit is neglected.
    Where any penalty for the benefit of a school district, or of the
    schools of any school district, town, supervisory district or county,
    shall be incurred, and the officer, whose duty it is by law to sue for
    the same, shall wilfully and unreasonably refuse or neglect to sue for
    the same, such officer shall forfeit the amount of such penalty to the
    same use, and it shall be the duty of his successor in office to sue for
    the same.