Title 11, Counties

A. The officers of the county are: 1. Sheriff. 2. Recorder. 3. Treasurer. 4. School superintendent. 5. County attorney. 6. Assessor. 7. Supervisors. 8. Clerk of the board of supervisors. 9. Tax collector. B. The county treasurer shall be ex officio tax collector.

A person shall not be eligible for a county office, whether elective or appointive, nor shall a certificate of election or commission issue to any person, unless he is, at the time of his election or appointment, eighteen years of age or over, a resident of the state, an elector …

A. The sheriff, the constable and the constable's deputies are prohibited from practicing law or forming a partnership with an attorney-at-law. B. In a county having a population of sixty thousand or more persons, the county attorney or the county attorney's deputies shall not en…

The following officers shall reside within the county: 1. Judge of the superior court. 2. Treasurer and ex officio tax collector. 3. Clerk of the board of supervisors. 4. Sheriff. 5. Assessor. 6. County attorney. 7. Recorder. 8. School superintendent. 9. Public defender.

A county officer shall not absent himself from the state for more than thirty days without the consent of the board of supervisors.

A. County and precinct officers for whose election and term of office no other provision is made, shall be elected at the regular general election and shall hold office for a term of two years from the first day of January subsequent to their election. B. One person only shall be…

A. When the term of office for which an officer has been elected or appointed is terminated by operation of law, death, resignation or removal, leaving unperformed any duty imposed by law, the successor in office shall perform all acts and complete all unfinished official busines…

Where offices are consolidated, the person elected or appointed to fill the offices consolidated shall take the oath of office and give the bond required for each, discharge the duties and receive the compensation of each office.

The county officers enumerated in section 11-401, by and with the consent of, and at salaries fixed by the board, may appoint deputies, stenographers, clerks and assistants necessary to conduct the affairs of their respective offices. The appointments shall be in writing.

A. A county shall not spend or use its resources, including the use or expenditure of monies, accounts, credit, facilities, vehicles, postage, telecommunications, computer hardware and software, web pages, personnel, equipment, materials, buildings or any other thing of value, fo…

When, in the opinion of the chief officer of any county office, the public interest requires the performance of any duties of the office at a place other than the county seat, the duties may be performed at such place by a duly appointed and qualified deputy of the county officer…

The board of supervisors, treasurer and recorder shall each have a seal of office bearing the name of the county and the office.

A. Every county officer, except the sheriff, shall keep the officer's office open for at least forty hours each week or at least thirty-two hours each week if the week contains a day that is a legal holiday. Notwithstanding section 1-301, for the purposes of opening county office…

A. County and precinct officers entitled to receive or collect fees, except notaries public, shall file on the first day of the month an itemized statement of all fees earned during the last month in the conduct of their official duties with the clerk of the board and the county …

Every salaried county or precinct officer failing to collect the prescribed fees and pay them into the county treasury is liable to the county therefor.

A. In counties having a population of five hundred thousand or more persons, the following annual salaries shall be paid to county officers: Annual Salary Annual Salary Through Beginning Officer December 31, 2024 January 1, 2025 Attorney $123,678 $143,678 Assessor 76,600 96,600 R…

A. The board of supervisors in each county shall appoint a clerk and determine his salary. B. A clerk of a board of supervisors shall not be paid compensation other than the salary determined by the board but the clerk may be reimbursed for his actual necessary expenses incurred …

A. The county assessor and treasurer shall maintain the confidentiality of email addresses provided by county residents who request to receive information and notices from these county offices by email. B. This section does not limit or prohibit the public from inspecting or copy…

A. At the regular June meeting of the several boards of supervisors preceding a general election, the boards shall fix the salaries of constables to be elected for the four-year period commencing on the first day of the following January. B. In precincts with an average of one hu…

A. A justice of the peace or a justice of the peace pro tempore shall not receive his salary unless such justice either certifies that no cause before such justice remains pending and undetermined for sixty days after it has been submitted for decision or there is submitted by th…

A. The sheriff shall: 1. Preserve the peace. 2. Arrest and take before the nearest magistrate for examination all persons who attempt to commit or who have committed a public offense. 3. Prevent and suppress all affrays, breaches of the peace, riots and insurrections that may com…

By and with the advice and consent of the board of supervisors, the sheriff may appoint ranger deputies whose compensation shall be fixed by the board, not to exceed one hundred twenty-five dollars per month for each deputy for salary and expenses incurred. Every ranger deputy sh…

When a vacancy occurs in the office of sheriff the chief deputy shall execute the office until the vacancy is filled.

A. The sheriff shall be allowed actual and necessary expenses incurred by the sheriff in pursuit of criminals, for transacting all civil or criminal business and for service of all process and notices, and such expenses shall be a county charge, except that the allowable expenses…

A. The sheriff shall receive the following fees in civil actions: 1. For serving each true copy of the original summons in a civil suit, $16, except that the sheriff shall not charge a fee for service of any document pursuant to section 13-3602 or any injunction against harassmen…

The sheriff shall pay into the county treasury, on the first Monday of each month, all fees and mileage earned and collected by him.

A sheriff or other ministerial officer is justified in the execution of, and shall execute all process and orders regular on their face and issued by competent authority, whatever may be the defect in the proceedings upon which they were issued.

The officer executing process shall then, and so long as he retains it, upon request, show a conformed copy of the process, with all papers attached, to any interested person.

If a sheriff neglects to make due return of a writ or paper delivered to him to be served or executed, or is guilty of any misconduct in the service or execution thereof, he is liable to the party aggrieved for damages sustained, and, in addition, for a penalty of two hundred dol…

No direction or authority by a party to a sheriff in respect to the execution of process or return thereof, or to any act or omission relating thereto, shall discharge or excuse the sheriff from liability for neglect or misconduct, unless in writing and signed by the party or his…

If a sheriff or deputy fails to pay over to the county, according to law, any money collected or received by the sheriff or deputy for the county, or fails to pay over to the person entitled thereto any money collected or received by the sheriff or deputy by virtue of the sheriff…

A. Each county sheriff shall maintain on the office's public website a list of the neutral safe exchange locations within their county for the purposes of exchanging children pursuant to a parenting plan under section 25-403.10. B. Any sheriff's office may designate two or more p…

Service of a paper, other than process, upon the sheriff may be made by delivering it to him or to one of his deputies, or to a person in charge of the office during office hours. When the sheriff is a party to an action or proceeding, the process and orders therein, which it wou…

The sheriff may employ prisoners, inside or outside the county jail, who have been sentenced to imprisonment in the county jail to such labor or occupation as he deems necessary, including, but not limited to, agricultural work projects or the production of articles needed for co…

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 doc…

If a former sheriff neglects or refuses to deliver to his successor the jail, process, documents and prisoners in his charge, as required by section 11-456, the successor may take possession of the jail, take custody of the prisoners therein confined, and may compel the delivery …

A sheriff who receives a fine or forfeiture and knowingly fails or refuses to pay or disburse it according to law within thirty days after the receipt thereof, is guilty of a class 2 misdemeanor.

A. The sheriff may establish a prisoner work, community restitution work and home detention program for eligible sentenced prisoners, which shall be treated the same as confinement in jail and shall fulfill the sheriff's duty to take charge of and keep the county jail and prisone…

A. If a county operates a facility that provides medical and health services to inmates and the facility has been accredited by the national commission on correctional health care or the American correctional association, the board of supervisors of that county may require that a…

A. The recorder shall have custody of and shall keep all records, maps and papers deposited in the recorder's office. B. The recorder shall record separately, in typewriting, in a legible hand or by use of photostatic or photographic machines or by a system of microphotography, a…

A. Every recorder shall keep indices to the instruments that have been recorded. There shall be at least one entry in the indices for each instrument recorded and this entry shall show at least the date of recording, the docket and page number where recorded, the grantor or the e…

A. The recorder may keep single or multiple indices of official records. The indices may be kept in distinctly marked volumes or may be stored by electronic or other storage and retrieval media. B. The names of the grantor or the equivalent or the grantee or the equivalent in the…

A. On presentation, the recorder shall record master forms in the official records, indexing the forms in such manner that they can be easily located. B. A recorded master form, or a numbered portion of a master form, may be incorporated by reference in any subsequent recorded in…

The recorder shall record without fee the discharge papers of officers and enlisted personnel of the military and naval forces of the United States. Information contained in the military service record DD-214 or its equivalent shall not be disclosed to the general public if store…

The recorder shall file and record with the record of deeds, grants and transfers, certified copies of final judgments partitioning or affecting the title to or possession of real property, any part of which is located in the county.

Not later than January 1, 2025, the recorder shall provide a system for notifying a person or entity when any document is recorded in which the person or entity is a named party to the instrument. The system shall allow a person or entity to choose to participate and is voluntary…

When any instrument is authorized or required by law to be recorded, it shall be recorded, unless otherwise expressly provided, in the office of the county recorder of the county in which the property or thing, or part thereof, affected by the instrument is located, but if only p…

A. An instrument shall be considered recorded from the time it is accepted for record, as provided by sections 11-461 and 11-480. The recorder shall certify every instrument so recorded, indicating the hour, day, month and year of recording and the record identification of the in…

When an instrument authorized by law to be recorded is deposited in the recorder's office for record, the recorder shall give to the person depositing the instrument, if required, a receipt specifying the particulars thereof.

The recorder shall, without delay, record each instrument authorized to be recorded which is deposited with him for record, except where otherwise provided, with the acknowledgments, proofs, affidavits and certificates thereon, and other papers thereto annexed, in the order and a…