California Government Code ARTICLE 1 - Duties

  • Section 26600.
    The sheriff shall preserve peace, and to accomplish this object may sponsor, supervise, or participate in any project of crime prevention, rehabilitation of persons previously...
  • Section 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.(Added...
  • Section 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...
  • Section 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...
  • Section 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...
  • Section 26605.1.
    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no deputy sheriff shall be required to become a custodial or other officer involuntarily.(Added by Stats. 1993, Ch. 1236,...
  • Section 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...
  • Section 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...
  • Section 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 request...
  • Section 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...
  • Section 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...
  • Section 26608.
    The sheriff shall serve all process and notices in the manner prescribed by law.(Added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 424.)
  • Section 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...
  • Section 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...
  • Section 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...
  • Section 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...
  • Section 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...
  • Section 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...
  • Section 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 desperately...
  • Section 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...
  • Section 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...
  • Section 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...
  • Section 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...
  • Section 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...
  • Section 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...
  • Section 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 sheriff...

Last modified: October 22, 2018