Title 10 — Courts and Judicial Procedure

§ 2101. Compensation. The Sheriffs of New Castle, Kent and Sussex Counties shall only receive compensation for the performance of their official duties in the form of an annual salary as fixed by their representative county governments. The New Castle County government, the Kent …

§ 2102. Deputies and clerks. The sheriffs in the respective counties may select and employ deputies listed below: Kent and Sussex Counties: such chief deputy, deputies and clerks as are authorized by the Levy Court or County Council of the county, at compensation fixed by such Le…

§ 2103. Sheriffs and regular deputies. Sheriffs and deputy sheriffs shall not have any arrest authority. However, sheriffs and deputy sheriffs may take into custody and transport a person when specifically so ordered by a judge or commissioner of Superior Court.23 Del. Laws, c. 6…

§ 2104. Attendance on courts; duties of Sheriff of Kent County as to Supreme Court. (a) The sheriff of each county, in person or by a deputy, shall attend the several courts of law and equity during every term thereof in the sheriff’s county. The neglect of this duty shall be dee…

§ 2105. Summoning jurors and witnesses. The sheriffs of the respective counties are required, as often as there may be occasion, to summon all inquests or jurors, which sheriffs ought to summon, and witnesses necessary for executing justice. For every neglect or default under thi…

§ 2106. Sale of property under execution process; records. (a) The sheriffs of the respective counties shall procure proper books and enter therein the disposition of all moneys arising from the sale of property under execution process, when the same is applicable otherwise than …

§ 2107. Endorsement on documents of sheriffs’ fees. The sheriff shall endorse and return upon every writ, process or copy of an order of court, directed to or executed by the sheriff, the fees prescribed by law for all services under the same, specifying particularly every item. …

§ 2108. Entry of constable’s sales. The sheriff of each county shall, upon the receipt of an advertisement from any constable of the county, enter the time and place of such sale, the name of the defendant and constable.14 Del. Laws, c. 379; Code 1915, § 1339; Code 1935, § 1517; …

§ 2109. Reception of sum due on capias ad satisfaciendum. Upon arresting a defendant on a writ of capias ad satisfaciendum, the sheriff shall receive the sum due thereon if offered.Code 1852, § 586; Code 1915, § 1336; Code 1935, § 1514; 10 Del. C. 1953, § 2109;

§ 2110. Penalty for nonpayment of funds collected. If any sheriff neglects to pay, according to the condition of the sheriffs’ recognizance, any money collected by the sheriff, at the time when the same is payable, the sheriff shall pay to the party entitled to the same, in addit…

§ 2111. Payment of funds into court. Where several persons claim money collected by a sheriff, or where the person entitled to receive it resides out of the sheriff’s bailiwick, and has no lawful attorney within the same, the sheriff may bring the money into the court from which …

§ 2112. Mileage fees. The sheriff of each county at the end of each month shall present to the receiver of taxes and county treasurer or the Department of Finance an itemized and verifiable account of all mileage travelled in the performance of every official duty when travelled …

§ 2113. Administering oaths by deputies. Deputies may administer oaths in all cases in which, by the laws of this State, an oath is authorized and required to be administered by the sheriff. In all cases in which the oath is administered by a deputy, whose appointment is recorded…

§ 2114. Fish and Wildlife Agent [Repealed].26 Del. Laws, c. 162, § 7; Code 1915, § 1345; Code 1935, § 1518; 10 Del. C. 1953, § 2114; 70 Del. Laws, c. 221, §§ 1, 2; repealed by 78 Del. Laws, c. 266, § 17, eff. June 19, 2012.;