ARTICLE 1. Duties

Article 1 added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 424.

§§ 26600–26616 · 26 sections

§ 26600 The sheriff shall preserve peace, and to accomplish this object may sponsor, supervise, or participate in any project of crime prevention, rehabilitation of…
§ 26601 The sheriff shall arrest and take before the nearest magistrate for examination all persons who attempt to commit or who have committed a public offense.
§ 26602 The sheriff shall prevent and suppress any affrays, breaches of the peace, riots, and insurrections that come to his or her knowledge, and investigate public…
§ 26604 The sheriff shall command the aid of as many inhabitants of the sheriff’s county as he or she thinks necessary in the execution of his or her duties.
§ 26605 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, except in counties in which the sheriff, as of July 1, 1993, is not in charge of and the sole and exclusive…
§ 26605.1 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no deputy sheriff shall be required to become a custodial or other officer involuntarily.
§ 26605.5 (a) The sheriff has the authority, after conferring with a physician who is neither a county employee nor under a preexisting contract with the county, to…
§ 26605.6 (a) The sheriff, or his or her designee, has the authority, after conferring with a physician who has oversight for providing medical care at a county jail, or…
§ 26605.7 (a) The sheriff, or his or her designee, after conferring with the physician who has oversight for providing medical care, or the physician’s designee, may…
§ 26605.8 Before implementing Sections 26605.6 and 26605.7, the county board of supervisors shall adopt a process to fund the nonfederal share of Medi-Cal costs for the…
§ 26607 The sheriff shall endorse upon all process and notices the year, month, day, hour, and minute of reception and on payment of fees issue to the person…
§ 26608 The sheriff shall serve all process and notices in the manner prescribed by law.
§ 26608.1 The sheriff, when serving any process or notice, shall, if the instructions to the sheriff include a request for a certificate as prescribed by the Soldiers…
§ 26608.2 Whenever a county or city and county owns land in another county, it may request the sheriff of that county to deputize its officers or employees as deputy…
§ 26608.3 (a) In Shasta County, the board of supervisors by ordinance or resolution may transfer from the sheriff to the marshal of the Shasta County Superior Court the…
§ 26609 The sheriff shall certify upon process or notices the manner and time of service, or if he fails to make service, the reason of his failure, and return the…
§ 26610 The sheriff of any county which maintains a jail in another county has the same control and supervision of the property, personnel, and inmates that he would…
§ 26611 The sheriff in attendance upon court shall act as the crier thereof. He shall call the parties and witnesses and all other persons bound to appear at the court…
§ 26612 The sheriff may supply ambulance service within the county to any person if all of the following conditions exist: (a) The person has been rendered so…
§ 26613 Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 29601 the board of supervisors in a county having a population in excess of 3,000,000 may authorize the sheriff to…
§ 26614 The board of supervisors of a county may authorize the sheriff to search for and rescue persons who are lost or are in danger of their lives within or in the…
§ 26614.5 The county or city and county of residence of a person searched for or rescued by the sheriff under the authority of Section 26614 shall pay to the county or…
§ 26614.6 (a) Notwithstanding Article 8 (commencing with Section 53150) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5, whenever a county or city and county is billed…
§ 26614.7 (a) Notwithstanding Article 8 (commencing with Section 53150) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5, when a person 16 years of age or older is a…
§ 26615 The sheriff shall maintain, or cause to be maintained, a directory of specially trained dogs or dog teams with proven ability in search and rescue operations…
§ 26616 Upon the application of a licensee under the Private Investigator and Adjuster Act (commencing with Section 7500 of the Business and Professions Code), the…