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