2012 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 23 - Law Enforcement and Public Safety
Chapter 15 - GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES OF SHERIFFS AND DEPUTY SHERIFFS
Section 23-15-45 - Service of arrest warrants on incarcerated inmates; statewide jurisdiction.


SC Code § 23-15-45 (2012) What's This?

A sheriff is invested with statewide territorial jurisdiction to serve upon an inmate incarcerated at a state correctional institution or local detention facility an arrest warrant issued by a magistrate of a county who has been granted, by written order of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Carolina, statewide territorial jurisdiction to dispose of qualified criminal cases.

HISTORY: 2002 Act No. 348, Section 3.

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