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§ 19-25-1. Commission; term of office; oath and bond - There shall be chosen one (1) sheriff for each county,...
§ 19-25-3. Eligibility to hold office of sheriff; training in law enforcement required - A person shall not be eligible to the office of...
§ 19-25-5. Penalties of bond - The sheriffs of the several counties shall give bond, with...
§ 19-25-7. Remedy on joint and several; officer's liability first fixed - The remedy upon sheriff's bond shall be joint and several...
§ 19-25-9. Performance of sheriff's duties when latter is incapable, unfit, or the like - If the sheriff be a party to or interested in...
§ 19-25-11. Arrest and confinement of sheriff - In the event there is outstanding a warrant for the...
§ 19-25-13. Budgeting and financing of sheriffs' departments - The sheriff shall, at the July meeting of the board...
§ 19-25-15. Identification of sheriffs' motor vehicles; use of unmarked vehicles - Motor vehicles purchased or leased by the county for the...
§ 19-25-17. Purchase of patrol boats for sheriffs in certain counties - The board of supervisors of any county in which is...
§ 19-25-19. Appointment, oath and compensation of deputy sheriffs - Every sheriff shall have power to appoint one or more...
§ 19-25-21. Law enforcement deputies - The minimum number of deputies having law enforcement duties for...
§ 19-25-23. Maintenance of regular and auxiliary deputies; assistance to other counties; assistance for drug enforcement purposes - Each sheriff shall maintain and cause to be paid a...
§ 19-25-25. Remedy of sheriff against defaulting deputy - The sheriff shall have the same remedy and judgment against...
§ 19-25-27. Deputy liable on motion of sheriff - When any fine, penalty, or judgment shall be assessed or...
§ 19-25-29. Duty of deputy as to process he serves - When a deputy sheriff has served any writ whatever, he...
§ 19-25-31. Riding bailiffs - Each judge of a circuit, chancery or county court, or...
§ 19-25-33. Dispensing with appointment of bailiffs - In all civil cases, where there is a jury, and...
§ 19-25-35. Duty of sheriff to attend courts, jail committed persons, and to execute orders and decrees - The sheriff shall be the executive officer of the circuit...
§ 19-25-37. Duty of sheriff to execute and return process - Every sheriff, by himself or his deputy, shall from time...
§ 19-25-39. Sheriff may employ power of the county in executing process - If the sheriff finds that resistance will be made against...
§ 19-25-41. Liability of sheriff for failure to return execution - If any sheriff or other officer properly authorized to act...
§ 19-25-43. Liability of sheriff as to final process of chancery court - A sheriff or other officer properly authorized to act for...
§ 19-25-45. Liability of sheriff for failure to pay over money collected and similar omissions - If any sheriff or other officer properly authorized to act...
§ 19-25-47. Liability of sheriff for false return on any process - If a sheriff or other officer properly authorized to act...
§ 19-25-49. Liability of sheriff for not returning money advanced for executing process in case of its non-execution - If any sheriff fails to execute any process for the...
§ 19-25-51. Liability of sheriff for failing to pay excess money to defendants - When the amount of the sale of property under execution...
§ 19-25-53. Unexecuted writs and list of prisoners to be delivered to successor sheriff - Every sheriff, at the expiration of his term of office,...
§ 19-25-55. Mittimus and discharge warrants preserved and turned over to successor sheriff - All warrants, writs, orders, process, and precepts of any kind,...
§ 19-25-57. Property delivered to successor sheriff - Every sheriff who shall have levied an execution or other...
§ 19-25-59. Mesne process docket kept by sheriff - It shall be the duty of every sheriff to keep...
§ 19-25-61. Execution docket kept by sheriff - It shall be the duty of every sheriff to keep...
§ 19-25-63. Jail docket kept by sheriff - It shall be the duty of every sheriff to keep...
§ 19-25-65. Sheriff to serve as county librarian - The sheriff shall be the custodian of the books other...
§ 19-25-67. Duty of sheriff to keep the peace - It shall be the duty of every sheriff to keep...
§ 19-25-69. Sheriff to have charge of courthouse, jail and protection of prisoners - The sheriff shall have charge of the courthouse and jail...
§ 19-25-74. Feeding of prisoners; log of meals served - In any event, regardless of which method in respect to...
§ 19-25-75. Additional guards for jail - If the jail be insufficient or if there be danger...
§ 19-25-77. Support of prisoner confined for contempt - When a prisoner in custody for contempt of court shall...
§ 19-25-79. Sheriff to receive and keep prisoner committed by justice - The sheriff of any county shall receive and keep any...
§ 19-25-81. Sheriff to receive and keep prisoners from United States officers - It shall be the duty of all sheriffs as jailors...
§ 19-25-83. Maintenance and use of canine corps - The sheriff shall keep those hounds bought pursuant to Section...
§ 19-25-85. Duties of sheriff of Harrison County in separate judicial district - The sheriff of Harrison County shall be the proper officer...
§ 19-25-87. Authority of sheriff to receive funds from federal government and to expend such funds - The sheriff of any county in which the federal government...