2013 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 16 - Crimes and Offenses
CHAPTER 9 - OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC JUSTICE
SECTION 16-9-240. Taking of consideration or the like by sheriff or other officer for not performing duties.
If a sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable or other officer authorized to serve legal process receives from the defendant or any other person any money or other valuable thing as a consideration, reward or inducement for omitting or delaying to arrest a defendant or to carry him before a magistrate, for delaying to take a person to prison, for postponing the sale of property under an execution or for omitting or delaying to perform any duty pertaining to his office he shall be punished by a fine not exceeding three hundred dollars.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 16-214; 1952 Code Section 16-214; 1942 Code Section 1522; 1932 Code Section 1522; Cr. C. '22 Section 470; Cr. C. '12 Section 543; Cr. C. '02 Section 386; G. S. 2554; R. S. 303; 1869 (14) 308.
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