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administrator, a deputy or such other person as the
administrator may choose, and a certified copy of the order
making such appointment is evidence of the appointment. A
receiver has the power and authority provided in this chapter
and such other powers and authority as may be expressed in the
order of the administrator.__If the administrator or a deputy
is appointed receiver, no additional compensation need be
paid, but any reasonable and necessary expenses as a receiver
must be paid by the processor. If another person is appointed,
then the compensation of the receiver must be paid from the
assets of that processor.

 
B.__Upon taking possession of the property and business of a
payroll processor under this section, the receiver:

 
(1) May collect money due to the administrator and
perform all acts necessary to conserve the payroll
processor's assets and business and shall proceed to
liquidate the payroll processor's affairs;

 
(2) Shall collect all debts due and claims belonging to
the payroll processor and may sell or compound all bad
or doubtful debts;

 
(3) May sell, for cash or other consideration or as
provided by law, all or any part of the real and
personal property of the payroll processor;

 
(4) May take, in the name of the administrator, a
mortgage on the real property from a bona fide
purchaser to secure the whole or part of the purchase
price; and

 
(5) May borrow money and issue evidence of indebtedness
therefor. To secure the repayment of this money, the
receiver may mortgage, pledge, transfer in trust or
hypothecate any of the property of the payroll
processor, whether real, personal or mixed, superior to
any charge for expenses of liquidation.

 
C.__The assets of the payroll processor in liquidation,
exclusive of any bond proceeds, must be disbursed in the
following order:

 
(1) First, the payment of the costs and expenses of
liquidation;

 
(2) Second, payment of payroll, tax and unemployment
insurance premium funds held by the payroll processor;


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