Taxes constitute debt.

The license taxes herein levied shall constitute a debt due the counties subject to this subpart, and may be collected by civil suit brought within three years after the tax has become due and payable. The judge of probate, license commissioner, director of county department of revenue, or other public officer performing like duties in such counties shall have the power to bring and prosecute any such suits in his or her own name as judge of probate, license commissioner, director of county department of revenue, or other public officer performing like duties in such counties for and on behalf of the counties subject to this subpart. The provisions of this section are cumulative and this section shall not be deemed to abridge or limit the power of the judge of probate, license commissioner, director of county department of revenue, or other public officer performing like duties in such counties to use all other methods of collection that are set forth herein.

(Acts 1965, No. 388, p. 533, §15.)