N.C. Gen. Stat. § 162-17

Current through Session Law 2024-58

Section 162-17 - Duties of outgoing sheriff for unexecuted process

It shall be the duty of any sheriff who shall have received a precept, and shall go out of office before the return day thereof, without having executed the same, to deliver same to the succeeding sheriff with sufficient time allowed for it to be executed by him.

R.C., c. 105, s. 25; Code, s. 2088; Rev., s. 2820; C.S., s. 3939; 1983, c. 670, s. 10.