Texas Local Government Code - Section 85.003. Deputies
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§ 85.003. DEPUTIES. (a) The appointment of a deputy
sheriff must be in writing.
(b) A person appointed as a deputy, before beginning to
perform the duties of office, must take and subscribe the official
oath, which, together with the certificate of the officer
administering the oath, must be endorsed on the appointment. The
appointment and oath shall be deposited and recorded in the county
clerk's office. A list of the appointments shall be posted in a
conspicuous place in that office.
(c) A deputy serves at the pleasure of the sheriff.
However, the appointment of a deputy is revoked on indictment of the
deputy for a felony.
(d) A sheriff is responsible for the official acts of a
deputy and may require that a deputy execute a bond or other
security. A sheriff has the same remedies against a deputy and the
deputy's sureties as any other person has against the sheriff and
the sheriff's sureties.
(e) A deputy may perform the acts and duties of the deputy's
principal.
Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 149, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987.
Section: 84.021 84.901 84.902 85.001 85.0011 85.002 85.0025 85.003 85.004 85.005 85.006 85.021 85.022 85.023 86.001
Last modified: August 11, 2007
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