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2015 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 23 - Law Enforcement and Public Safety
CHAPTER 17 - LIABILITIES OF SHERIFFS AND DEPUTY SHERIFFS
- Section 23-17-10. Default in returning warrants or other process of magistrate.
- Section 23-17-20. Open contempt or breach of duty.
- Section 23-17-30. Failure to execute or return final process or pay over money.
- Section 23-17-40. Official misconduct for remaining in contempt after attachment.
- Section 23-17-50. Additional penalty for failure of sheriff to pay over money after demand.
- Section 23-17-60. Penalty for sheriff or deputy permitting prisoners committed by civil process to go at large.
- Section 23-17-70. Negligent escape of prisoner on mesne or final process.
- Section 23-17-80. Punishment for permitting escape of convicted criminal.
- Section 23-17-90. Illegal arrest.
- Section 23-17-100. Penalty for purchasing judgments, decrees or executions by sheriff or deputy.
- Section 23-17-110. Penalties for purchase by sheriff or deputy at sheriff's sale.
- Section 23-17-120. Rule to show cause or attachment barred two years after expiration of term.
- Section 23-17-130. Liability of sureties of sheriff.
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