Senate Engrossed

State of Arizona Senate Fifty-second Legislature Second Regular Session 2016

CHAPTER 139

SENATE BILL 1018

 

AN ACT

 

amending section 13‑3802, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to aid for execution of process.

 

 

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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1.  Section 13-3802, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE13-3802.  Right to command aid for execution of process; exception; punishment for resisting process

A.  When a sheriff or other public officer authorized to execute process finds,  or has reason to believe that resistance will be made to execution of the process, such the officer may command as many inhabitants of the county as the officer deems proper to assist in overcoming such the resistance, except that a person may refuse to assist if the commanded assistance would expose that person to physical injury.

B.  The officer shall certify to the court from which the process issued the names of those persons resisting, and they may be proceeded against for contempt of court. END_STATUTE

 

 

 

 

APPROVED BY THE GOVERNOR MAY 11, 2016.

 

FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE MAY 11, 2016.