32-5-310
Section 32-5-310 Enforcement of chapter; arrest procedure; bail bond. Any peace officer, including state troopers, sheriffs and their deputies, constables and their deputies, police officers and marshals of cities or incorporated towns, county police or patrols, state or county license inspectors and their deputies, and special officers appointed by any agency of the State of Alabama for the enforcement of its laws relating to motor vehicles, now existing or hereafter enacted, shall be authorized, and it is hereby made the duty of each of them to enforce the provisions of this chapter and to make arrests for any violation or violations thereof, without warrant if the offense be committed in his or her presence, and with warrant if he or she does not observe the commission of the offense. If the arrest be made without warrant, the accused may elect to be immediately taken before the nearest court having jurisdiction, whereupon it shall be the duty of the officer to so take him or her....
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45-48-230.40
Section 45-48-230.40 Sheriff reserve officers. (a) The Sheriff of Marshall County is hereby authorized to establish a sheriff reserve to be composed of persons who volunteer to serve, without compensation, as sheriff reserve officers of the sheriff's department. (b) The sheriff reserve officers shall at all times serve under the direction and supervision of the sheriff or members of the sheriff's department. The sheriff shall determine the fitness of persons to serve as sheriff reserve officers and shall provide the training necessary for reserve officers. (c) The duties of a sheriff reserve officer shall be limited to assisting the sheriff's department in the performance of its regularly constituted duties. The reserve officers shall serve under the immediate supervision of a lawful sheriff's department officer. The sheriff reserve officers shall have the authority to carry firearms when summoned to duty and shall have arrest powers only in the event the full-time sheriff's department...
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15-10-45
Section 15-10-45 Execution of writs, attachments and other process in adjoining county. All writs of arrest, attachments, subpoenas for witnesses or other process issued by a court while in session shall be executed by the sheriff or his deputy or any person specifically designated for that purpose in any county adjoining that where such court is in session. (Code 1907, §6289; Code 1923, §3283; Code 1940, T. 15, §174.)...
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15-9-41
Section 15-9-41 Arrest without warrant - When authorized; persons authorized to make arrest; appearance of accused before judge. The arrest of a person may be lawfully made also by an officer or a private citizen without a warrant upon reasonable information that the accused stands charged with a crime punishable by death or life imprisonment in the courts of another state. When so arrested, the accused must be taken before a district or circuit court judge with all practicable speed and complaint must be made against him under oath setting forth the ground for the arrest as in Section 15-9-40, and thereafter his answer shall be heard as if he had been arrested on a warrant. (Acts 1931, No. 482, p. 559; Code 1940, T. 15, §61.)...
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16-28-17
Section 16-28-17 When child may be taken into custody. It shall be the duty of the attendance officer, probation officer or other officer authorized to execute writs of arrest to take into custody without warrant any child required to attend school or be instructed by a private tutor who is found away from home and not in the custody of the person having charge or control of such child during school hours and who has been reported by any person authorized to begin proceedings or prosecutions under the provisions of this article as a truant. Such child shall forthwith be delivered to the person having charge or control of said child or to the principal teacher of the school or the private tutor from whom said child is a truant. If such child is an habitual truant, he shall be brought before the juvenile court for such disposition as the judge of said court finds proper from the facts. (School Code 1927, §315; Code 1940, T. 52, §312.)...
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16-47-10
Section 16-47-10 Police officers - Appointed by president; powers and duties generally. The president of the university may appoint or employ one or more suitable persons to act as police officers to keep off intruders and prevent trespass upon and damage to the property of the university. Such person shall be charged with all the duties and invested with all the powers of police officers. The officer may eject trespassers from the university buildings and grounds. The officer may, without warrant, arrest persons who commit disorderly conduct, or trespass on the property of the institution, or in any circumstance in which an arrest by a police officer without a warrant is authorized by law, and carry them before the nearest district court or municipal court charged with the trial of such offenders. Upon proper affidavit charging the offense, the person arrested may be tried by the court and convicted as in case of persons brought before the court on a warrant. The officer or officers...
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17-17-1
Section 17-17-1 Arrest of electors attending, going to, or returning from elections. An elector must not be arrested during attendance at elections, or while going to or returning therefrom, except for treason, felony, or breach of the peace or for a violation on that day of any of the provisions of the election law. For such breach of the peace the sheriff or the sheriff's deputy may arrest without process and commit to jail until the offender shall give bond with good and sufficient sureties, to be approved by the sheriff, for appearance at the next session of the circuit court to answer any indictment which may be found against the offender. (Code 1876, §282; Code 1886, §378; Code 1896, §1634; Code 1907, §298; Code 1923, §369; Code 1940, T. 17, §20; §17-1-6; amended and renumbered by Act 2006-570, p. 1331, §85.)...
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37-8-221
Section 37-8-221 Prohibited instruments - Search and seizure. (a) In addition to the grounds enumerated in Section 15-5-2 for the issuance of search warrants, search warrants may be issued as prescribed in Title 15, for the seizure of any prohibited instrument, as defined in Sections 37-8-217, 37-8-218, 37-8-220, and this section. (b) Any such prohibited instrument may be seized by court order, under a search warrant or incident to lawful arrest, and shall be held by the sheriff or other lawful peace officer subject to the order of the magistrate or the court to which the proceedings may be carried by appeal; and, upon final disposition of any proceedings in connection with any prohibited instrument, as defined by Sections 37-8-217, 37-8-218, 37-8-220, and this section, such prohibited instrument shall be destroyed by such officer. (c) Any prohibited instrument, as defined by Sections 37-8-217, 37-8-218, 37-8-220, and this section, lawfully seized, shall not be taken from the custody...
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45-17-231.20
Section 45-17-231.20 Establishment of sheriff reserve; officers; duties. (a) The Sheriff of Colbert County is hereby authorized to establish a sheriff reserve to be composed of such persons who may volunteer to serve as sheriff reserve officers of the sheriff's department. Such service shall be without compensation to the individual so volunteering. (b) Sheriff reserve officers shall at all times serve under the direction and supervision of the sheriff and/or members of the sheriff's department. The sheriff shall determine the fitness of persons to serve as sheriff reserve officers and shall prescribe such training necessary for reserve officers. (c) The duties of a sheriff reserve officer shall be limited to assisting the sheriff's department in the performance of its regularly constituted duties and shall serve under the immediate supervision of a lawful sheriff's department officer. Sheriff reserve officers shall have the authority to carry firearms when summoned to duty. Reserve...
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45-37-230.02
Section 45-37-230.02 Replacement of clothing or equipment. The court of county commissioners, board of revenue, or other like governing body of any county having a population of more than 600,000 according to the 1970 or any subsequent federal decennial census, may appropriate county funds to pay the actual cost of replacing any clothing or equipment of a deputy sheriff, probation officer, or juvenile detention officer of the county that is damaged or destroyed while such officer is engaged in the performance of his or her official duties and acting within the line and scope of his or her authority. (Act 80-287, p. 402, §1.)...
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