Bill Text: MS HB136 | 2013 | Regular Session | Engrossed
Bill Title: Bailiffs; authorize to administer oaths in court.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2013-03-05 - Died In Committee [HB136 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2013-HB136-Engrossed.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2013 Regular Session
To: Judiciary B
By: Representative Snowden
House Bill 136
(As Passed the House)
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 19-25-35, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO AUTHORIZE BAILIFFS TO ADMINISTER OATHS IN COURT AT THE DISCRETION OF THE COURT; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. Section 19-25-35, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
19-25-35. The sheriff shall be the executive officer of the circuit and chancery court of his county, and he shall attend all the sessions thereof with a sufficient number of deputies or bailiffs. He shall execute all orders and decrees of said courts directed to him to be executed. He shall take into his custody, and safely keep, in the jail of his county, all persons committed by order of either of said courts, or by any process issuing therefrom, or lawfully required to be held for appearance before either of them. Bailiffs may administer oaths in the courts at the discretion of the court.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2013.
