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Chapter 51
- SHERIFFS
Section 51.70 ‑ Deputy sheriffs; appointment; revocation; special deputies; responsibility for acts, defaults, and misconduct; bond.
Section 51.72 ‑ Undersheriff; executing office of sheriff; effect of default or misfeasance.
Section 51.73 ‑ Sheriff; appointments and revocations, form, filing; oaths of office.
Section 51.76 ‑ “County primary roads,”“county local roads,” and “state trunk line highways” defined; sheriff's department to provide certain services; resolution requesting services; resolution requesting vehicle inspection program; concurrent resolution requiring reduction of general services; presumption; construction.
Section 51.77 ‑ Secondary road patrol and traffic accident prevention; grant; agreement; information; report to office of highway safety planning; effect of reducing expenditures or level of road patrol; recommendations for expenditure of grant; expanded services; allocation formula; annual report; law enforcement plan; report to legislature; impact and cost effectiveness study.
Section 51.85 ‑ Service of papers on sheriff at county clerk's office.
R‑S‑1846‑51‑128‑147 ‑ CHAPTER 147 Chapter 147. Of admitting prisoners to the liberties of jails, of escapes, and proceedings on the election of a new sheriff. (51.128...51.134)
Section 51.130 ‑ Former sheriff; delivery of property, process, documents and prisoners to successor.
Section 51.131 ‑ Former sheriff; instrument of delivery to successor; new sheriff, acknowledgment of receipt.
Section 51.133 ‑ Former sheriff; delivery of jail, process documents and prisoners, refusal or neglect.
Section 51.221 ‑ Sheriff, undersheriff, or deputy sheriff; powers and duties; fees.
Act 180 of 1919 ‑ UNDERSHERIFFS, DEPUTIES, AND OTHER EMPLOYEES (51.241 - 51.242)
Section 51.241 ‑ Undersheriffs and deputies in counties of 150,000 to 300,000; appointment; compensation, increase.
Section 51.242 ‑ Undersheriffs and deputies in counties over 400,000; appointment; compensation.
Section 51.261 ‑ Chief deputy sheriff in counties of 150,000 to 300,000; appointment, tenure.
Section 51.262 ‑ Chief deputy sheriff; appointment and oath of office, filing.
Section 51.281 ‑ County jail rules and regulations; adoption by sheriff, endorsement by circuit court, effect.
Section 51.282 ‑ Record of infractions of rules and regulations; examination; reduction of sentence; forfeiture and restoration of good time.
Section 51.283 ‑ County jail rules and regulations; posting; good behavior allowances, liability of sheriff.
Section 51.301 ‑ Recovery of drowned bodies; jurisdiction of police chiefs and sheriffs, duties, expenses.
Section 51.302 ‑ Recovery of bodies of drowned persons; assistance from other public agencies; jurisdiction.
Section 51.351 ‑ Civil service commission for sheriffs' departments in counties over 400,000; creation; applicability of act.
Section 51.352 ‑ Civil service commission; membership, appointment, terms; president, term.
Section 51.353 ‑ Civil service commission; members, qualifications; holding other office prohibited; political affiliations.
Section 51.356 ‑ Sheriff's department; incumbents, eligibility to permanent appointment under civil service.
Section 51.357 ‑ Sheriff's department; appointments, reinstatements, promotions and discharges subject to act; exceptions.
Section 51.358 ‑ Civil service commission; aid from board of supervisors and department heads; offices, supplies.
Section 51.360 ‑ Civil service examination; application; filing; contents; forms; certificates; grounds for refusing to examine or certify applicant; hearing; review; physical examination; age; residence; reinstatement.
Section 51.361 ‑ Civil service commission; rules and regulations for examinations.
Section 51.362 ‑ Civil service employees; tenure; removal, discharge, reduction or suspension, procedures.
Section 51.363 ‑ Civil service examinations, obstructing right to examination or registration, unlawfully furnishing information or impersonating others; penalty.
Section 51.364 ‑ Appointment or selection contrary to rules; refusal to comply to or violates act; penalty.
Section 51.366 ‑ Act effective upon approval by electors; petition; ballot; form; referendum.
Section 51.367 ‑ Rescission and repeal of act by electors; ballot, form; referendum.