18-701. REFUSAL OF OFFICER TO MAKE ARREST. Every sheriff, coroner, keeper of a jail, constable, or other peace officer, who wilfully refuses to receive or arrest any person charged with criminal offense, is punishable by fine not exceeding $5,000, and imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one (1) year. History: [18-701, added 1972, ch. […]
18-703. ILLEGAL ARRESTS AND SEIZURES. Every public officer, or person pretending to be a public officer, who, under the pretense or color of any process or other legal authority, arrests any person or detains him against his will, or seizes or levies upon any property, or dispossesses any one of any lands or tenements, without […]
18-704. INHUMAN TREATMENT OF PRISONERS. Every officer who is guilty of wilful inhumanity or oppression toward any prisoner under his care or in his custody is punishable by fine not exceeding $5,000, and removal from office. History: [18-704, added 1972, ch. 336, sec. 1, p. 862.]
18-705. RESISTING AND OBSTRUCTING OFFICERS. Every person who wilfully resists, delays or obstructs any public officer, in the discharge, or attempt to discharge, of any duty of his office or who knowingly gives a false report to any peace officer, when no other punishment is prescribed, is punishable by a fine not exceeding one thousand […]
18-706. UNNECESSARY ASSAULTS BY OFFICERS. Every public officer who, under color of authority, without lawful necessity, assaults or beats any person, is punishable by fine not exceeding $5,000 and imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one (1) year. History: [18-706, added 1972, ch. 336, sec. 1, p. 844.]
18-708. RECAPTURE OF GOODS FROM LEGAL CUSTODY. Every person who wilfully injures or destroys, or takes, or attempts to take, or assists any person in taking or attempting to take, from the custody of any officer or person, any personal property which such officer or person has in charge under any process of law, is […]
18-709. MALICIOUSLY PROCURING WARRANT. Every person who, maliciously and without probable cause, procures a search warrant or warrant of arrest to be issued and executed, is guilty of a misdemeanor. History: [18-709, added 1972, ch. 336, sec. 1, p. 863.]
18-711. UNLAWFUL EXERCISE OF FUNCTIONS OF PEACE OFFICERS — UNLAWFUL IMPORTATION OF POLICE OFFICERS — SUPPRESSION OF VIOLENCE — EXCEPTIONS. 1. Any person who shall in this state unlawfully exercise or attempt to exercise the functions of, or hold himself out to any one as, a deputy sheriff, marshal, policeman, constable or peace officer, or […]
18-712. CIVIL LIABILITY FOR IMPORTING POLICE OFFICERS OR ARMED MEN. Any person, officer, company, association or corporation who shall knowingly bring, or cause to be brought, or aid in bringing, into this state any armed or unarmed police force, detective agency or force, or armed or unarmed body of men for the suppression of domestic […]
