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Mississippi

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