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2012 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 17 - Criminal Procedures
Chapter 13 - ARREST, PROCESS, SEARCHES AND SEIZURES
- Section 17-13-10 - Circumstances where any person may arrest a felon or thief.
- Section 17-13-20 - Additional circumstances where citizens may arrest; means to be used.
- Section 17-13-30 - Officers may arrest without warrant for offenses committed in view.
- Section 17-13-40 - Law enforcement officer jurisdiction when in pursuit of offender; authority, rights, privileges, and immunities extended.
- Section 17-13-45 - Response to distress calls or requests for assistance in adjacent jurisdictions; extension of rights, privileges and immunities.
- Section 17-13-47 - Arrest in State by officer from Georgia or North Carolina; procedure for determining lawfulness of arrest; extradition.
- Section 17-13-50 - Right to be informed of ground of arrest; consequences of refusal to answer or false answer.
- Section 17-13-60 - Circumstances where persons are not to be arrested but may be served process.
- Section 17-13-70 - Warrant authorizing breaking open gambling rooms.
- Section 17-13-80 - Service of process on domestic and foreign corporations.
- Section 17-13-90 - Service of criminal process on Sunday.
- Section 17-13-100 - Escaped prisoners may be retaken on Sunday.
- Section 17-13-110 - Confinement in industrial communities.
- Section 17-13-120 - Persons shall not be removed from one prison to another without cause.
- Section 17-13-130 - Penalty for signing warrant for illegal removal of prisoner.
- Section 17-13-140 - Issuance, execution and return of search warrants for property connected with the commission of crime; inventory of property seized.
- Section 17-13-141 - Records to be kept by judiciary officers authorized to issue search warrants; penalty.
- Section 17-13-150 - Person served search warrant shall also be furnished copy of warrant and supporting affidavit.
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