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Statutes > Alabama > Title14 > Chapter6 > 14-6-2Section 14-6-2
Delivery of jail, etc., upon death, etc., of sheriff.
On the death, resignation, removal from office or expiration of term of office of any sheriff, or of any coroner acting as sheriff, the jail must be delivered over to his successor or to the person authorized by law to take charge of it, together with the prisoners therein, the files of commitments and discharges and everything belonging or appertaining to the jail.
(Code 1852, §239; Code 1867, §3787; Code 1876, §4489; Code 1886, §4539; Code 1896, §4950; Code 1907, §7195; Code 1923, §4805; Code 1940, T. 45, §120.)