Sec. 20.
If any person, company, association or corporation whose property is subject to assessment under this act shall directly or indirectly promise, offer or give to any member of said board, during his term of office, or to any other person at his request, any gratuity of any kind whatever, such person or corporation shall forfeit to the state the sum of 10,000 dollars for each such offense, to be recovered in an action in the name of the people of the state of Michigan, in any court of competent jurisdiction. And the recovery of such fine under this act shall not constitute a bar to any prosecution of the person or corporation so offending under the criminal laws of this state.
History: 1905, Act 282, Eff. Sept. 16, 1905 ;-- CL 1915, 4232 ;-- CL 1929, 3571 ;-- CL 1948, 207.20
Structure Michigan Compiled Laws
Section 207.1 - State Board of Assessors; Secretary, Duties; Assistants.
Section 207.2 - State Board of Assessors; Compensation for Clerical Assistance, Expenses.
Section 207.5a - Exemption of Materials and Supplies.
Section 207.5b - Taxable Value; Determination.
Section 207.6 - Company's Annual Statement; Contents, Time.
Section 207.7 - Sleeping Car Company Defined; Annual Statement, Contents, Time.
Section 207.8 - Blanks Furnished; Other Reports; Board, Self-Information; Penalty, Exception.
Section 207.10 - Assessment Roll; Description; Form; Cash and Taxable Valuations; Placement on Roll.
Section 207.16 - Irregularities Not Authorizing Court Intervention.
Section 207.17 - Taxes on Public Utilities, Payment Into General Fund.
Section 207.18 - Collection of Specific Taxes Prior to 1909.
Section 207.19 - Certain Acts as Misdemeanor; Penalty.