Mo. Rev. Stat. § 59.080
59.080 Failure to give bond — penalty.
59.080. Failure to give bond — penalty. — No recorder shall enter upon or officiate in his office before he has given such security, upon pain of forfeiting the sum of three hundred dollars, one-half to the county and the other half to him who shall sue for the same, to be recovered by civil action.
(RSMo 1939 § 13152) Prior revisions: 1929 § 11531; 1919 § 10556; 1909 § 10369