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NC Gen Stat § 162-10 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 162 - Sheriff|Article 2 - Sheriff's Bond.|§ 162-10 - Duty of commissioners when bond insufficient.

 162-10. Duty of commissioners when bond insufficient.Whenever the board of county commissioners finds that the sheriff has been unable to provide the bond prescribed by the board, the board shall give written notice to the sheriff to appear before the board within 10 days and provide a sufficient bond. If the sheriff fails to appear or provide a sufficient bond, the sheriff shall forfeit his office, and the commissioners shall elect a suitable person in the county as sheriff for the unexpired term, pursuant to G.S. 162-5 or G.S. 162-5.1, as appropriate. (1879, c. 109, s. 2; Code, s. 2074; Rev., s. 2813; C.S., s. 3932; 1983, c. 670, s. 6.)
NC Gen Stat § 162-12 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 162 - Sheriff|Article 2 - Sheriff's Bond.|§ 162-12 - Liability of sureties.

 162-12. Liability of sureties.The sureties to a sheriff's bond shall be liable for all fines and amercements imposed on him, in the same manner as they are liable for other defaults in his official duty. (1829, c. 33; R.C., c. 105, s. 14; Code, s. 2076; Rev., s. 2815; C.S., s. 3934.)
NC Gen Stat § 162-13 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 162 - Sheriff|Article 3 - Duties of Sheriff.|§ 162-13 - To receipt for process.

 162-13. To receipt for process.Every sheriff or coroner shall, when requested, give his receipt for all original and mesne process placed in his hands for execution, to the party suing out the same, his agent or attorney; and such receipt shall be admissible as evidence of the facts therein stated, against such officer and his sureties, in any suit between the party taking the receipt and such officer and his sureties. (1848, c. 97; R.C., c. 105, s. 18; Code, s. 2081; Rev., s. 2816; C.S., s. 3935; 1995, c. 379, s. 14(d).)
NC Gen Stat § 162-14 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 162 - Sheriff|Article 3 - Duties of Sheriff.|§ 162-14 - Duty to execute process.

 162-14. Duty to execute process.Every sheriff, by himself or his lawful deputies, shall execute and make due return of all writs and other process to him legally issued and directed, within his county or upon any river, bay or creek adjoining thereto, or in any other place where he may lawfully execute the same. (1777, c. 218, s. 5, P.R.; 1821, c. 1110, P.R.; R.C., c. 105, s. 17; 1874, c. 33; Code, s. 2079; 1899, c. 25; Rev., s. 2817; C.S., s. 3936; 1973, c. 108, s. 98; 1983, c. 670, s. 8.)
NC Gen Stat § 162-15 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 162 - Sheriff|Article 3 - Duties of Sheriff.|§ 162-15 - Imposition of penalty; procedure.

 162-15. Imposition of penalty; procedure.In any case in which a person aggrieved seeks the imposition of penalties against a sheriff for failure or neglect to perform any duty of office or for any default in office as provided in G.S. 162-12, he may proceed by motion in the cause, supported by an affidavit, in a pending action. Upon the filing of a motion in the cause the clerk shall deliver a copy of the motion and affidavit and an order to show cause to the sheriff. (1871-2, c. 74, s. 4; Code, s. 446; Rev., s. 2818; C.S., s. 3937; 1983, c. 670, s. 9.)
NC Gen Stat § 162-16 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 162 - Sheriff|Article 3 - Duties of Sheriff.|§ 162-16 - Execute summons, order or judgment.

 162-16. Execute summons, order or judgment.Whenever the sheriff may be required to serve or execute any summons, order or judgment, or to do any other act, he shall be bound to do so in like manner as upon process issued to him, and shall be equally liable in all respects for neglect of duty; and if the sheriff be a party, the coroner shall be bound to perform the service, as he is now bound to execute process where the sheriff is a party; and this Chapter relating to sheriffs shall apply to coroners when the sheriff is a party. Sheriffs and coroners may return process by mail. Their liabilities in respect to the execution of process shall be as prescribed by law.In those counties where the office of coroner has been abolished, or is vacant, and in which process is required to be served or executed on the sheriff, the authority to serve or execute such process shall be vested in the clerk of court; however, the clerk of court is hereby empowered to designate and direct by appropriate order some person to act in his stead to serve or execute the same. (C.C.P., s. 354; Code, s. 598; Rev., s. 2819; C.S., s. 3938; 1971, c. 653, s. 1.)
NC Gen Stat § 162-17 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 162 - Sheriff|Article 3 - Duties of Sheriff.|§ 162-17 - Duties of outgoing sheriff for unexecuted process.

 162-17. Duties of outgoing sheriff for unexecuted process.It shall be the duty of any sheriff who shall have received a precept, and shall go out of office before the return day thereof, without having executed the same, to deliver same to the succeeding sheriff with sufficient time allowed for it to be executed by him. (R.C., c. 105, s. 25; Code, s. 2088; Rev., s. 2820; C.S., s. 3939; 1983, c. 670, s. 10.)
NC Gen Stat § 162-18 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 162 - Sheriff|Article 3 - Duties of Sheriff.|§ 162-18 - Payment of money collected on execution.

 162-18. Payment of money collected on execution.In all cases where a sheriff has collected money upon an execution placed in his hands, if there be no bona fide contest over the application thereof, he shall immediately pay the same into the office of the clerk of the court from which the execution issued.  (Code, s. 2080; Rev., s. 2821; C.S., s. 3940; 1983, c. 670, s. 11; 2021-47, s. 14(d).)
NC Gen Stat § 162-22 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 162 - Sheriff|Article 3 - Duties of Sheriff.|§ 162-22 - Custody of jail.

 162-22. Custody of jail.The sheriff shall have the care and custody of the jail in his county; and shall be, or appoint, the keeper thereof.No law-enforcement officer or jailer who shall have the care and custody of any jail shall receive any portion of any jail fee or charge paid by or for any person confined in such jail, nor shall the compensation or remuneration of such officer be affected to any extent by the costs of goods or services furnished to any person confined in such jail. (R.C., c. 105, s. 22; Code, s. 2085; Rev., s. 2824; C.S., s. 3944; 1967, c. 581, s. 3; 1969, c. 1090; 1983, c. 670, s. 14.)
NC Gen Stat § 162-23 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 162 - Sheriff|Article 3 - Duties of Sheriff.|§ 162-23 - Prevent entering jail for lynching; county liable.

 162-23. Prevent entering jail for lynching; county liable.When the sheriff of any county has good reason to believe that the jail of his county is in danger of being broken or entered for the purpose of killing or injuring a prisoner placed by the law in his custody, it shall be his duty at once to call on the commissioners of the county, or some one of them, for a sufficient guard for the jail, and in such case, if the commissioner or commissioners fail to authorize the employment of necessary guards to protect the jail, and by reason of such failure the jail is entered and a prisoner killed, the county in whose jail the prisoner is confined shall be responsible in damages, to be recovered by the personal representatives of the prisoner thus killed, by action begun and prosecuted before the superior court of any county in this State. (1893, c. 461, s. 7; Rev., s. 2825; C.S., s. 3945.)
NC Gen Stat § 162-24 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 162 - Sheriff|Article 3 - Duties of Sheriff.|§ 162-24 - Delegation of official duties.

 162-24. Delegation of official duties.The sheriff may not delegate to another person the final responsibility for discharging his official duties, but he may appoint a deputy or employ others to assist him in performing his official duties. (23 Hen. VI, c. 10; R.C., c. 105, s. 21; Code, s. 2084; Rev., s. 2828; C.S., s. 3946; 1983, c. 670, s. 15.)
NC Gen Stat § 162-25 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 162 - Sheriff|Article 3 - Duties of Sheriff.|§ 162-25 - Obligations taken by sheriff payable to himself.

 162-25. Obligations taken by sheriff payable to himself.The sheriff or his deputy shall take no obligation of or from any person in his custody for or concerning any matter or thing relating to his office otherwise payable than to himself as sheriff and dischargeable upon the prisoner's appearance and rendering himself at the day and place required in the writ (whereupon he was or shall be taken or arrested), and his sureties discharging themselves therefrom as special bail of such prisoner or such person keeping within the limits and rules of any prison; and every other obligation taken by any sheriff in any other manner or form, by color of his office, shall be void, except in any special case and other obligation shall be, by law, particularly and expressly directed; and no sheriff shall demand, exact, take or receive any greater fee or reward whatsoever, nor shall have any allowance, reward or satisfaction from the public, for any service by him done, other than such sum as the court shall allow for ex officio services and the allowance given and provided by law. (1777, c. 118, s. 8, P.R.; R.C., c. 105, s. 19; Code, s. 2082; Rev., s. 2829; C.S., s. 3947.)
NC Gen Stat § 162-26 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 162 - Sheriff|Article 3 - Duties of Sheriff.|§ 162-26 - Sheriff may establish volunteer school safety resource officer program.

 162-26. Sheriff may establish volunteer school safety resource officer program.(a) The sheriff may establish a volunteer school safety resource officer program to provide nonsalaried special deputies to serve as school safety resource officers in public schools. To be a volunteer in the program, a person must have prior experience as either (i) a sworn law enforcement officer or (ii) a military police officer with a minimum of two years' service. If a person with experience as a military police officer is no longer in the armed services, the person must also have an honorable discharge. A program volunteer must receive training on research into the social and cognitive development of elementary, middle, and high school children and must also meet the selection standards and any additional criteria established by the sheriff.(b) Each volunteer shall report to the sheriff and shall work under the direction and supervision of the sheriff or the sheriff's designee when carrying out the volunteer's duties as a school safety resource officer. No volunteer may be assigned to a school as a school safety resource officer until the volunteer has updated or renewed the volunteer's law enforcement training and has been certified by the North Carolina Sheriff's Education and Training Standards Commission as meeting the educational and firearms proficiency standards required of persons serving as special deputy sheriffs. A volunteer is not required to meet the physical standards required by the North Carolina Sheriff's Education and Training Standards Commission but must have a standard medical exam to ensure the volunteer is in good health. A person selected by the sheriff to serve as a volunteer under this section shall have the power of arrest while performing official duties as a volunteer school safety resource officer.(c) The sheriff may enter into an agreement with the local board of education to provide volunteer school safety resource officers who meet both the criteria established by this section and the selection and training requirements set by the sheriff of the county for the schools. The sheriff shall be responsible for the assignment of any volunteer school safety resource officer assigned to a public school and for the supervision of the officer.(d) There shall be no liability on the part of and no cause of action shall arise against a volunteer school safety resource officer, the Sheriff or employees of the sheriff supervising a volunteer school safety officer, or the public school system or its employees for any good-faith action taken by them in the performance of their duties with regard to the volunteer school safety resource officer program established pursuant to this section.  (2013-360, s. 8.45(e).)
NC Gen Stat § 162-32 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 162 - Sheriff|Article 4 - County Prisoners.|§ 162-32 - Bond of prisoner committed on capias in civil action.

 162-32. Bond of prisoner committed on capias in civil action.Every bond given by any person committed in arrest and bail, or in custody after final judgment, shall be assigned by the sheriff to the party at whose instance such person was committed to jail, and shall be returned to the office of the clerk of the court where the judgment was rendered, and shall have the force of a judgment. If any person who obtains the rules of any prison, as aforesaid, escapes out of the same before he has paid the debt or damages and costs according to the condition of his bond, the court where the bond is filed, upon motion of the assignee thereof, shall award execution against such person and his sureties for the debt or damages and costs, with interest from the time of escape till payment, and no person committed to jail on such execution shall be allowed the rules of prison: Provided, the obligors have ten days' previous notice of such motion, in writing; but they shall not be admitted to deny the making of the bond in their answer, unless by affidavit they prove the truth of the plea. (1759, c. 65, ss. 2, 3, P.R.; R.C., c. 87, s. 14; Code, s. 3469; Rev., s. 1341; C.S., s. 1345; 1973, c. 822, s. 3.)
NC Gen Stat § 162-33 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 162 - Sheriff|Article 4 - County Prisoners.|§ 162-33 - Prisoner may furnish necessaries.

 162-33. Prisoner may furnish necessaries.With the sheriff's approval, prisoners shall be allowed to purchase and procure such necessaries, in addition to the diet furnished by the jailer, as they may think proper. (1795, c. 433, s. 6, P.R.; R.C., c. 87, s. 8; Code, s. 3463; Rev., s. 1344; C.S., s. 1348; 1973, c. 822, s. 3; 2001-487, s. 95.)
NC Gen Stat § 162-34 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 162 - Sheriff|Article 4 - County Prisoners.|§ 162-34 - United States prisoners.

 162-34. United States prisoners.When a prisoner is delivered to the keeper of the county jail by the authority of the United States, such keeper shall receive and commit such prisoner if the jail has adequate and available housing space. The keeper of the county jail shall not be subject to any pains or penalties for refusal to receive and commit a federal prisoner. The United States shall reimburse the county for the incarceration of any federal prisoner at such rate as may be agreed upon between the county and the United States. (1790, c. 322, ss. 1, 2, P.R.; R.C., c. 87, s. 1; Code, s. 3456; Rev., s. 1342; C.S., s. 1349; 1973, c. 822, s. 3; 1983, c. 219.)
NC Gen Stat § 162-35 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 162 - Sheriff|Article 4 - County Prisoners.|§ 162-35 - Arrest of escaped persons from penal institutions.

 162-35. Arrest of escaped persons from penal institutions.Upon information received from the superintendent of any correctional or any penal institution, established by the laws of the State, that any person confined in such institution or assigned thereto by juvenile or other court under authority of law, has escaped therefrom and is still at large, it shall be the duty of sheriffs of the respective counties of the State, and of any peace officer in whose jurisdiction such person may be found, to take into his custody such escaped person, if to be found in his county, and to cause his return to the custody of the proper officer of the institution from which he has escaped. (1933, c. 105, s. 1; 1973, c. 822, s. 3.)
NC Gen Stat § 162-36 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 162 - Sheriff|Article 4 - County Prisoners.|§ 162-36 - Transfer of prisoners to succeeding sheriff.

 162-36. Transfer of prisoners to succeeding sheriff.The delivery of prisoners, by indenture between the late and present sheriff, or the entering on record in court the names of the several prisoners, and the causes of their commitment, delivered over to the present sheriff, shall be sufficient to discharge the late sheriff from all liability for any escape that shall happen. (1777, c. 118, s. 12, P.R.; R.C., c. 87, s. 15; Code, s. 3470; Rev., s. 1348; C.S., s. 1352; 1973, c. 822, s. 3.)
NC Gen Stat § 162-38 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 162 - Sheriff|Article 4 - County Prisoners.|§ 162-38 - Where jail unfit or insecure, courts may commit to jail of adjoining county.

 162-38. Where jail unfit or insecure, courts may commit to jail of adjoining county.Whenever there is an unfit or insecure jail in any county, the judicial officers of such county may commit any persons brought before them, whether in a criminal or civil proceeding, to the jail of any adjoining county, for the same causes and under the like regulations that they might have ordered commitments to the usual jail; and the sheriffs and other officers of such county in which there is an unfit or insecure jail, and the sheriffs or keepers of the jails of the adjoining counties, shall obey any order of commitment so made. (1835, c. 2, s. 2; R.C., c. 87, s. 3; Code, s. 3458; Rev., s. 1350; C.S., s. 1354; 1973, c. 57, s. 2; c. 822, s. 3; 1983, c. 670, s. 17.)
NC Gen Stat § 162-40 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 162 - Sheriff|Article 4 - County Prisoners.|§ 162-40 - When jail destroyed, transfer of prisoners provided for.

 162-40. When jail destroyed, transfer of prisoners provided for.When the jail of any county is destroyed by fire or other accident, any judicial officer of such county may cause all prisoners then confined therein to be brought before him. Upon the production of the process under which any prisoner was confined, such judicial officer shall order his commitment to the jail of any adjacent county. The sheriff or other officer of the county deputized for that purpose shall obey the order; and the sheriff or keeper of the common jail of such adjacent county shall receive such prisoners consistent with those provisions of G.S. 162-38. (1835, c. 2, s. 1; R.C., c. 87, s. 2; Code, s. 3457; Rev., s. 1351; C.S., s. 1355; 1973, c. 57, s. 3; c. 822, s. 3; 1983, c. 670, s. 18.)
NC Gen Stat § 162-40.1 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 162 - Sheriff|Article 4 - County Prisoners.|§ 162-40.1 - Reimbursement for transfer of prisoners.

 162-40.1. Reimbursement for transfer of prisoners.The county receiving prisoners pursuant to G.S. 162-38, 162-39 and 162-40 shall be reimbursed at the usual jail fee rate for each 24 hours of confinement or part thereof by the county from which the prisoner is transferred. (1983, c. 670, s. 19.)
NC Gen Stat § 162-50 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 162 - Sheriff|Article 4 - County Prisoners.|§ 162-50 - Penalties.

 162-50. Penalties.Upon a finding that the sheriff, personally or through his lawful deputies, has willfully failed or neglected to perform any duty imposed by this Chapter, or has made any false return, he shall be subject to damages of not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00), and such damages recovered shall be paid to the person aggrieved. Nothing in this section bars an independent action for damages by the person aggrieved. (1983, c. 670, s. 21.)
NC Gen Stat § 162-55 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 162 - Sheriff|Article 4 - County Prisoners.|§ 162-55 - Injury to prisoner by jailer.

 162-55. Injury to prisoner by jailer.If the keeper of a jail shall do, or cause to be done, any wrong or injury to the prisoners committed to his custody, contrary to law, he shall not only pay treble damages to the person injured, but shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. (1795, c. 433, s. 6, P.R.; R.C., c. 87, s. 8; Code, s. 3463; Rev., s. 3661; C.S., s. 4407; 1983, c. 631, s. 1; 1993, c. 539, s. 1098; 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 24, s. 14(c).)
NC Gen Stat § 162-56 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 162 - Sheriff|Article 4 - County Prisoners.|§ 162-56 - Place of confinement.

 162-56. Place of confinement.Persons committed to the custody of a sheriff shall be confined in the facilities designated by law for such confinement, and shall not be confined in any other place. Nothing herein shall be construed to prohibit or limit the authority of a sheriff to house prisoners committed to his custody in quarters, approved by the Department of Health and Human Services, other than the county jail. (1795, c. 433, s. 4; R.C., c. 87, s. 16; Code, s. 3471; Rev., s. 3660; C.S., s. 4408; 1983, c. 631, s. 2; 1997-443, s. 11A.118(a).)
NC Gen Stat § 162-57 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 162 - Sheriff|Article 4 - County Prisoners.|§ 162-57 - Record to be kept; items of record.

 162-57. Record to be kept; items of record.The superintendent or other person having charge of prisoners shall keep a record showing, the name, age, date of sentence, length of sentence, crime for which convicted, home address, next of kin, and the conduct of each prisoner received. (1927, c. 178, s. 2; 1983, c. 631, s. 3.)
NC Gen Stat § 162-58 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 162 - Sheriff|Article 4 - County Prisoners.|§ 162-58 - Counties may work prisoners.

 162-58. Counties may work prisoners.The board of commissioners of the several counties may enact by resolution all necessary rules and regulations for work on projects to benefit units of State or local government by persons convicted of misdemeanors or felonies and imprisoned in the local confinement facilities or satellite jail/work release units of their respective counties. The sheriff shall approve rules and regulations enacted by the board. Prisoners working under this section shall be supervised by county employees or by the sheriff. The rules enacted by the board of county commissioners and approved by the sheriff shall specify a procedure for ensuring that county employees supervising prisoners pursuant to this section be provided with notice that the persons placed under their supervision are inmates from a local confinement facility or a satellite jail/work release unit. (1991 (Reg. Sess., 1992), c. 841, s. 1; 2002-159, s. 54.)
NC Gen Stat § 162-59 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 162 - Sheriff|Article 4 - County Prisoners.|§ 162-59 - Person having custody to approve prisoners for work.

 162-59. Person having custody to approve prisoners for work.No prisoner shall perform work pursuant to G.S. 162-58 unless the prisoner has been approved for the work by the person having custody of the prisoner. The decision to approve a prisoner for work shall be based on the prisoner's history of violence, if any, past criminal convictions, and current sentence. For purposes of this section, the person having custody of the prisoner is the sheriff, except that when the prisoner is confined in a district confinement facility the person having custody of the prisoner is the jail administrator. The person having custody of the prisoner may use his discretion to revoke his approval at any time and to return the prisoner to the local confinement facility or satellite jail/work release unit. Neither the person having custody of the prisoner nor any jailer may be held liable for the actions of any prisoner, including those actions committed during and after the escape of a prisoner, while the prisoner is outside their supervision pursuant to this section. (1991 (Reg. Sess., 1992), c. 841, s. 1.)