Section 5-1-35 - Duty of the sergeant-at-arms

The sergeant-at-arms of the senate shall give a general supervision, under the direction of the presiding officer. He shall attend the sittings thereof, preserve order, execute its commands and all process issued by its authority, and shall have control of the doorkeeper. He shall see that the hall of the senate and the committee rooms and the room of its presiding officer, the anterooms, lobbies and galleries thereof, are clean, comfortable and lighted at night during the sitting of the senate, and that all necessary conveniences are supplied to the members, officers and committees.Codes, 1892, § 2662; 1906, § 3022; Hemingway's 1917, § 5410; 1930, § 5345; 1942, § 3342; Laws, 1971, ch. 416, § 2; Laws, 1983, ch. 329, § 3, eff. 3/9/1983.