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2014 Kentucky Revised Statutes
CHAPTER 70 - SHERIFFS, CONSTABLES, AND COUNTY POLICE FORCE
70.078 Breaking and entering buildings to execute order of arrest.

KY Rev Stat § 70.078 (2014) What's This?

Download as PDF 70.078 Breaking and entering buildings to execute order of arrest. A sheriff having an order of arrest may enter any house or inclosure in which the party to be 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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