22-1-506. Liability for injury to books or failure to return. Every person who defaces, tears, or otherwise injures any book or other work or who fails to return any book taken by him is liable to the state in three times the value thereof if such book is not replaced by a new one or another book of identical title, in good order and condition; and no statute of limitations shall ever be effective against the claim of the state under this section.

     History: En. Sec. 6, Ch. 153, L. 1949; R.C.M. 1947, 44-406.