H.B.
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SHERIFF QUALIFICATIONS
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Amendments
Amendment 2 February 13, 2007 3:20 pm
Representative Paul Ray
proposes the following amendments:
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. requires sheriffs
{
and candidates for sheriff
}
to be certified as a correctional officer;
. requires sheriffs to pass any physical fitness test that the sheriff's office requires other
officers to pass, allowing six months to pass a test that a sheriff failed to pass;
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(b) [be] qualified to be certified as
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(i)
}
a law enforcement officer, as defined in Section
53-13-103
{
; and
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(ii) a correctional officer, as defined in Section
53-13-104
H. , or as a correctional
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manager as established by the Peace Officer Standards and Training Division created under
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Section 53-6-103 .H
}
.
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and
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of office
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.
}
; and
(d) pass any physical fitness test that the sheriff's office requires other officers to pass.
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(3)
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The
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(a) Subject to Subsection (3)(b), the
county legislative body shall declare the
office of sheriff to be vacant if at any
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time the incumbent sheriff fails to meet the legal qualifications for office under Subsection (2).
(b) A county legislative body may not declare a vacancy under Subsection (3)(a) based on a
sheriff's failure to pass a physical fitness test under Subsection (2)(d) if the sheriff passes the test within
six months after failing to pass it.
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