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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