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.