80-2-231. Foreclosure of lien. If the person receiving hail insurance secured by a crop lien fails to pay said insurance to the county treasurer by December 1 of the year in which the crop so insured is grown, the county treasurer shall on that day or as soon as possible thereafter deliver to the sheriff of said county a full, true, and correct copy of the lien on file in the office of the clerk and recorder and such sheriff must immediately demand from the person or persons signing such lien payment of the amount due thereon and, if the same is not paid to the sheriff upon such demand being made, the sheriff must forthwith seize and sell in the manner provided by law for the sale of personal property under execution a sufficient amount of grain belonging to such person to pay the amount due for hail insurance together with interest and costs and expenses of seizure and sale.

     History: En. Sec. 7, Ch. 40, L. 1923; re-en. Sec. 354.1, R.C.M. 1935; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 33, L. 1949; R.C.M. 1947, 82-1510.