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2009 Kentucky Revised Statutes
CHAPTER 70 SHERIFFS, CONSTABLES, AND COUNTY POLICE FORCE
70.078 Breaking and entering buildings to execute order of arrest.
Download pdfbe arrested may be, to arrest him; and, if necessary for this purpose, may break the house
or inclosure, having informed any person therein of his object; or, if no person appear to
whom such information can be given, after having publicly demanded the person to be
arrested; and, in either case, after having given sufficient time for the house or inclosure
to be opened. Effective: July 1, 1953
History: Transferred 1952 Ky. Acts ch. 84, sec. 1, effective July 1, 1953, from C.C. sec. 676.
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