California Code of Civil Procedure CHAPTER 1 - Of Ministerial Officers Generally

• Section 262.
  The direction or authority of a party or his or her attorney to a sheriff, in respect to the execution of process or return thereof,...
• Section 262.1.
  A sheriff or other ministerial officer is justified in the execution of, and shall execute, all process and orders regular on their face and issued...
• Section 262.2.
  Except as otherwise provided, the officer executing process shall, so long as he or she retains the original process, show it to any interested person,...
• Section 262.3.
  When any process remains with the sheriff unexecuted, in whole or in part, at the time of his death, resignation of office, or at the...
• Section 262.4.
  If the sheriff sells real estate, under and by virtue of an execution or order of court, the sheriff, or his or her successors in...
• Section 262.5.
  Service of a paper, other than process, upon the sheriff may be made by delivering it to him or to one of his deputies, or...
• Section 262.6.
  When the sheriff is a party to an action or proceeding, the process and orders therein, which it would otherwise be the duty of the...
• Section 262.7.
  If an action is begun against a sheriff, all process and orders may be served by any person in the manner provided in this code.(Amended...
• Section 262.8.
  Process or orders in an action or proceeding may be executed by a person residing in the county, designated by the court, or the judge...
• Section 262.9.
  When process is delivered to an elisor, he shall execute and return it in the same manner as the sheriff is required to execute similar...
• Section 262.10.a.
  Whenever process is executed, or any act performed by a coroner or elisor, he shall receive a reasonable compensation, to be fixed by the court,...
• Section 262.11.
  In all cases where new counties have been or may hereafter be created, and executions, orders of sale upon foreclosures of mortgages, or other process...

Last modified: October 22, 2018