Sec. 39. Collection of fines.[14]
All fines imposed for any violation of any city ordinance
or state law shall be collected by the clerk of the civil and
police justice court [municipal court]; and if said clerk shall
fail to collect, account for, and pay over all the fines in his
hands for collection, it shall be lawful for the council to recover
the same, so far as the same are accruing to the city,
by motion, in the corporate name of the city, before the corporation
court of said city, against the said clerk, his sureties
on his said bond, or any or either of them, his or their executors
or administrators, on giving ten days' notice of the same.
