Chapter 25 - SHERIFFS

Section 19-25-1 - Commission; term of office; oath and bond
Section 19-25-3 - Eligibility to hold office of sheriff; training in law enforcement required
Section 19-25-5 - Penalties of bond
Section 19-25-7 - Remedy on joint and several; officer's liability first fixed
Section 19-25-9 - Performance of sheriff's duties when latter is incapable, unfit, or the like
Section 19-25-11 - Arrest and confinement of sheriff
Section 19-25-13 - Budgeting and financing of sheriffs' departments
Section 19-25-15 - Identification of sheriffs' motor vehicles; use of unmarked vehicles
Section 19-25-17 - Purchase of patrol boats for sheriffs in certain counties
Section 19-25-19 - Appointment, oath and compensation of deputy sheriffs
Section 19-25-21 - Law enforcement deputies
Section 19-25-23 - Maintenance of regular and auxiliary deputies; assistance to other counties; assistance for drug enforcement purposes
Section 19-25-25 - Remedy of sheriff against defaulting deputy
Section 19-25-27 - Deputy liable on motion of sheriff
Section 19-25-29 - Duty of deputy as to process he serves
Section 19-25-31 - Riding bailiffs
Section 19-25-33 - Dispensing with appointment of bailiffs
Section 19-25-35 - Duty of sheriff to attend courts, jail committed persons, and to execute orders and decrees
Section 19-25-37 - Duty of sheriff to execute and return process
Section 19-25-39 - Sheriff may employ power of the county in executing process
Section 19-25-41 - Liability of sheriff for failure to return execution
Section 19-25-43 - Liability of sheriff as to final process of chancery court
Section 19-25-45 - Liability of sheriff for failure to pay over money collected and similar omissions
Section 19-25-47 - Liability of sheriff for false return on any process
Section 19-25-49 - Liability of sheriff for not returning money advanced for executing process in case of its non-execution
Section 19-25-51 - Liability of sheriff for failing to pay excess money to defendants
Section 19-25-53 - Unexecuted writs and list of prisoners to be delivered to successor sheriff
Section 19-25-55 - Mittimus and discharge warrants preserved and turned over to successor sheriff
Section 19-25-57 - Property delivered to successor sheriff
Section 19-25-59 - Mesne process docket kept by sheriff
Section 19-25-61 - Execution docket kept by sheriff
Section 19-25-63 - Jail docket kept by sheriff
Section 19-25-65 - Sheriff to serve as county librarian
Section 19-25-67 - Duty of sheriff to keep the peace
Section 19-25-69 - Sheriff to have charge of courthouse, jail and protection of prisoners
Section 19-25-71 - Sheriff to serve as jailer; separate rooms by gender; training
Section 19-25-73 - Feeding of prisoners; alternative methods of funding
Section 19-25-74 - Feeding of prisoners; log of meals served
Section 19-25-75 - Additional guards for jail
Section 19-25-77 - Support of prisoner confined for contempt
Section 19-25-79 - Sheriff to receive and keep prisoner committed by justice
Section 19-25-81 - Sheriff to receive and keep prisoners from United States officers
Section 19-25-83 - Maintenance and use of canine corps
Section 19-25-85 - Duties of sheriff of Harrison County in separate judicial district
Section 19-25-87 - Authority of sheriff to receive funds from federal government and to expend such funds