Each judge of a circuit, chancery or county court, or a court of eminent domain may, in the judge's discretion, by order entered on the minutes of the court, allow the sheriff riding bailiffs to serve in the respective court of such judge, not to exceed four (4) bailiffs. Any such person so employed shall be paid by the county on allowances of the court on issuance of a warrant therefor in an amount between Fifty-five Dollars ($55.00) and One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) for each day, or part thereof, for which he or she serves as bailiff when the court is in session. No full-time deputy sheriff shall be paid as a riding bailiff of any court. County court judges shall be limited to one (1) bailiff per each court day.Codes, 1930, § 3311; 1942, § 4236; Laws, 1926, ch. 198; Laws, 1958, ch. 329; Laws, 1977, ch. 357; Laws, 1989, ch. 487, § 1; Laws, 2004, ch. 505, § 7, eff. 8/19/2004 (the date the United States Attorney General interposed no objection under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, to the amendment of this section).Amended by Laws, 2022, ch. 392, HB 400,§ 1, eff. 7/1/2022.
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