19-3-39 - Supervisors are conservators of the peace.
§ 19-3-39. Supervisors are conservators of the peace.
The members of the board of supervisors are conservators of the peace within their respective counties, and shall possess all the powers as such which belong to, or are conferred on, justices of the peace.
Sources: Codes, 1857, ch. 59, art 12; 1871, § 1359; 1880, § 2141; 1892, § 286; 1906, § 304; Hemingway's 1917, § 3677; 1930, § 210; 1942, § 2885.