Mo. Rev. Stat. § 165.281

For every failure to pay a check drawn or order for payment issued upon a depositary by the treasurer of a seven-director school district, when moneys and funds sufficient for the payment thereof are in the depositary to the credit of the appropriate funds of the school district, the depositary shall forfeit and pay to the holder of the check or the payees of the order for payment ten percent of the amount thereof, and the board may revoke the order designating it as depositary.