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<br><br>95.480 Duties and liabilities of chief of police and policemen -- Fees -- Cities of <br>second class or urban-county government. <br>(1) The chief of police in cities of the second class or a policeman acting under his <br>authority shall attend all sessions of the legislative body, execute their orders, and <br>preserve order at their sessions. <br>(2) The chief of police may receive the same fees, for the use of the city or urban-<br>county government, that sheriffs are entitled to receive for like services, and have <br>the same power to collect them. <br>(3) The chief of police, policemen deputized by him, and others to whom the process of <br>a court is directed and comes for execution shall execute and return the process <br>within the time prescribed by law for sheriffs to execute and return similar process, <br>and on their failure they and their sureties shall be liable to the same penalties as <br>sheriffs. They shall be subject to similar penalties for not paying over moneys <br>collected on execution, making illegal charges, false returns and like illegal acts. <br>(4) The District Court may hear and determine motions against them and their sureties <br>for failure to pay over moneys collected, as the Circuit Court has jurisdiction to hear <br>and determine motions against defaulting sheriffs, or may proceed by fines and <br>imprisonment to enforce the execution and return of process. <br>Effective: January 2, 1978 <br>History: Amended 1976 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 14, sec. 117, effective January <br>2, 1978. -- Amended 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 248, sec. 10. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts <br>ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. secs. 3161, 3168. <br><br>