Arizona § 11-456 Delivery of property and papers to successor; return of executed process

Arizona Statutes

§ 11-456 — Delivery of property and papers to successor; return of executed process

Arizona § 11-456

Title 11Arizona Revised Statutes

Ch. 3COUNTY OFFICERS

Art. 2Sheriff

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Ariz. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 11-456 (2026).

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A.The sheriff shall deliver to his successor in office:

1.The jail of the county, or of a county jail district, with all its appurtenances, and all the property of the county therein.

2.All prisoners then confined in the jail.

3.All process, commitments or other papers or documents in his custody authorizing or relating to the confinement of the prisoners, and if any process has been returned, a statement in writing of the contents thereof and when returned.

4.All writs and other original process, and all documents for the summoning of a grand or petit jury, then in his hands which have not been fully executed by him.

5.All executions, attachments and final process, and all property in his hands or possession by virtue of the levy of any writ.

B.Upon such delivery, the former

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A. The sheriff shall deliver to his successor in office:

1. The jail of the county, or of a county jail district, with all its appurtenances, and all the property of the county therein.

2. All prisoners then confined in the jail.

3. All process, commitments or other papers or documents in his custody authorizing or relating to the confinement of the prisoners, and if any process has been returned, a statement in writing of the contents thereof and when returned.

4. All writs and other original process, and all documents for the summoning of a grand or petit jury, then in his hands which have not been fully executed by him.

5. All executions, attachments and final process, and all property in his hands or possession by virtue of the levy of any writ.

B. Upon such delivery, the former sheriff shall execute in duplicate an instrument reciting the property, process, documents and prisoners delivered, specifying particularly the process or other authority by which each prisoner was committed and is detained, and whether such process or authority is returned or delivered to the new sheriff. The instrument shall be delivered to the new sheriff, who shall in writing upon the duplicate copy, acknowledge receipt of the property, process, documents and prisoners therein specified, and shall deliver the duplicate and acknowledgment to the former sheriff.

C. The former sheriff shall return in his own name all original process, attachments and executions which he has fully executed.