§6-9-6. Accounts and reports by local public officers remitting
funds collected to proper officer.
All local governing officers, departments, boards and
commissions shall keep their financial accounts in records and
forms approved or prescribed by the chief inspector of public
offices and shall furnish promptly to the chief inspector of public
offices such information and reports as may be requested. Refusal
or neglect to comply with the requirements of this section shall
subject the person offending to removal from office. In case an
officer or employee of a local governing agency collects or
receives funds for the account of a local governing agency of which
he is not an officer or employee, he shall remit to the proper
officer of the local governing agency for whose account the
collection was made or payment was received, the full amount
collected or received for the account of such local governing
agency.