Section 405. Procedure when new officer assumes duties of office

1.  When a
  newly  elected  or  appointed county officer has qualified by taking and
  filing the official oath and undertaking required of  him  by  law,  the
  certificate  furnished  by  the  county  clerk  pursuant to section four
  hundred shall be his authority to demand of his predecessor the  custody
  of  all  books,  records,  maps, papers, equipment, supplies, moneys and
  property of the county to which such officer is entitled and directed to
  have custody. Such  inventories,  statements  or  receipts,  as  may  be
  required  of  such officer by local law or by resolution of the board of
  supervisors, shall be given. If the outgoing officer  shall  have  died,
  the administrator or executor of his estate may also demand a receipt of
  the successor in office.
    2.  The  outgoing  sheriff,  or  the  officer acting as sheriff, shall
  deliver the custody of all prisoners confined in the jail, together with
  all books, records, process,  mandates,  commitments  and  other  papers
  pertaining  to  the  office,  to  the new sheriff and duplicate receipts
  shall be given therefor. Uncompleted property executions and  executions
  directed against wages, earnings or income of a judgment-debtor shall be
  delivered to the new sheriff.
    3.  The failure of any outgoing officer to deliver such custody within
  ten days after such certificate has been delivered  and  a  demand  made
  thereon,  shall entitle the successor in office to maintain an action in
  the name of the county  against  said  predecessor  in  office,  or  the
  administrator  or  executor  of  his  estate, or against any employee or
  other person having possession thereof, to obtain such  custody  and  to
  recover  any damages that may have been suffered by the county by reason
  of such detention, together with a penalty of five hundred dollars.  The
  county  attorney shall appear for such county officer suing on behalf of
  the county and the recovery together with the statutory costs  shall  be
  the property of the county and may be used for general county purposes.