Chapter 110 OFFENSES. (updated 1-8-07)
Section 110-22 PROHIBITIONS WITH REGARD TO TOWN OFFICERS*
A. If any officer shall willfully and corruptly refuse to
execute any lawful process requiring
him to apprehend or confine a person convicted of or charged with an offense or willfully and
corruptly omit or delay to execute such process, whereby such person shall escape and go at
large, such officer shall be confined in jail not exceeding six (6) months and be fined not
exceeding five hundred dollars ($500.).
B. If any person, on being required by any sheriff or other
officer, shall refuse or neglect to
assist him in the execution of his office in a criminal case, in the preservation of the peace, the
apprehending or securing of any person for a breach of the peace or in any case of escape or
rescue, he shall be confined in jail not exceeding six (6) months and fined not exceeding one
hundred dollars($100.)
C. If any officer for performing an official duty for which
a fee or compensation is allowed or
provided by law knowingly demands and receives a greater fee or compensation than is allowed
or provided, he shall be fined not exceeding fifty ($50.)
D. If any person, authorized by law to charge fees for services performed by him and to issue
bills therefor, shall fraudulently issue a fee bill for a service not performed by him or for more
than he is entitled to, he shall be fined not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500.)
E. If any officer of the town shall fraudulently make a false
entry or erase, alter, secrete or
destroy any record in his keeping and belonging to his office, he shall be punished as provided in
Chapter 1, Article II, Penalties, of this Code.
F. If any person, by threats or force, knowingly attempts
to intimidate or impede a Judge,
Magistrate, Justice, juror, witness or any law enforcement officer, lawfully engaged in his duties
as such, or to obstruct or impede the administration of the justice in any court, he shall be
deemed guilty of a Class I misdemeanor.
G. Any person who shall falsely assume or exercise the functions,
powers, duties and privileges
incident to the office of sheriff, police officer, marshall or other peace officer or who shall
falsely assume or pretend to be any such officer shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
* Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code; see Ch. 1, General Provisions,
Art. I.