2012 Missouri Revised Statutes
TITLE VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 57 Sheriffs
Section 57.100 Duties generally.
Duties generally.
57.100. Every sheriff shall quell and suppress assaults and batteries, riots, routs, affrays and insurrections; shall apprehend and commit to jail all felons and traitors, and execute all process directed to him by legal authority, including writs of replevin, attachments and final process issued by circuit and associate circuit judges.
(RSMo 1939 13138, A. 1949 H.B. 2015, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)Prior revisions: 1929 11518; 1919 11642; 1909 11212
Effective 1-2-79
CROSS REFERENCE:
Arrest without warrant, on suspicion, persons violating any law including misdemeanors and ordinances in jurisdiction, powers, 544.216
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