2009 Rhode Island Code
Title 45 - Towns and cities
CHAPTER 45-16 - Sergeants and Constables
§ 45-16-11 - Judicial order disqualifying sergeant or constable from serving process.

SECTION 45-16-11

   § 45-16-11  Judicial order disqualifying sergeant or constable from serving process. – Whenever complaints, in writing, are made to the district court that any town sergeant or constable has been guilty of malfeasance, misfeasance, nonfeasance, or misconduct in serving or attempting to serve or pretending to serve any writ or process returnable to the district court, or has made a false return upon any writ or process, or has charged or exacted, for the service of any writ or process, fees greater than those allowed by law, or has, within a division of a district court, been guilty of any malfeasance or misconduct in his or her office other than that previously mentioned, the court shall cite the town sergeant or constable to appear before it at a time and place certain to answer to the complaint. A citation shall contain generally the substance of the complaint or have annexed a copy of the complaint. If, upon hearing of the complaint, the court finds and adjudges the complaint to be true, the court shall enter an order in its records disqualifying and debarring the town sergeant or constable from serving and executing any writ or process issuing from the district court until the further direction of the court. Thereupon, the town sergeant or constable shall be disqualified and debarred from serving or executing any writ or process issuing from the district court until the further direction of the court. The court shall send a certified copy of the order to the clerk of each division of the district court, and shall also send a certified copy of the order to the town clerk or city clerk from which the town sergeant or constable was appointed or elected, or the clerk of the board appointing the constable, if appointed by any board.