STATUTORY DUTIES OF A WYOMING COUNTY SHERIFF
The Carbon County Sheriff’s Office has a wide variety of responsibilities. These range from conducting criminal investigations to coordinating search and rescues. Wyoming State Statute defines the main duties required of the county sheriff in Title 18, Chapter 3, Article 6. While integral to the proper functioning and well-being of a county, these duties are only a small portion of what we do. Below are the duties required of a Wyoming county sheriff as defined by state statute.
18-3-603: Duty as custodian of jail and prisoners; requirements for boarding prisoners; quarters or rental allowance to be furnished by the county.
(a) Each sheriff has charge of the jail and the prisoners therein confined in his county. The prisoners shall be kept by the sheriff or by a deputy or detention officer appointed for that purpose, and for whose acts he and his sureties are liable. The sheriff shall provide three (3) nutritionally balanced meals each day for each prisoner. Each sheriff shall make a monthly accounting to the board of county commissioners to show that the expenditures have actually been made.
(b) The sheriff shall not be charged rent for any building owned or controlled by the county and occupied by him as a residence. If a residence is not furnished the sheriff by the county, the sheriff may be allowed an amount established annually by the board of county commissioners on or before July 1 of each calendar year. The amount shall be paid monthly and shall not exceed the prevailing rate of the municipality in which the sheriff resides.
18-3-604: Service of process; attendance upon courts.
The county sheriff or his deputy shall serve and execute according to law all processes, writs, precepts and orders issued by any court of record in his county or other lawful authority in all criminal and civil cases and he shall attend all courts of record in his county.
18-3-606: Duty to preserve peace.
Each county sheriff and deputy shall preserve the peace in the respective counties and suppress all affrays, riots, unlawful assemblies and insurrections. Each sheriff or deputy sheriff may call upon any person to assist in performing these duties or for the service of process in civil and criminal cases or for the apprehension or securing of any person for felony or breach of peace.