As Amended
SEC. 9-1-23. Judges conservators of peace; must reside in district.
[Until Laws, 1993, ch. 518, is effectuated under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, this section reads as appearing in the parent volume.] [Until Laws, 1993, ch. 518, is effectuated under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, this section reads as follows:] The judges of the supreme, circuit and county courts and chancellors shall be conservators of the peace for the state, each with full power to do all acts which conservators of the peace may lawfully do; and the circuit judges and chancellors shall reside within their respective districts and the county judges shall reside in their respective counties.
[From and after such time as Laws, 1993, ch. 518, is effectuated under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, this section reads as follows:] The judges of the Supreme, circuit and county courts and chancellors and judges of the Court of Appeals shall be conservators of the peace for the state, each with full power to do all acts which conservators of the peace may lawfully do; and the circuit judges and chancellors shall reside within their respective districts and the county judges shall reside in their respective counties.
SOURCES: Codes, 1857, ch. 61, art. 15; 1871, Sec. 532; 1880, Sec. 2268; 1892, Sec. 917; 1906, Sec. 993; Hemingway's 1917, Sec. 713; 1930, Sec. 740; 1942, Sec. 1655. Laws, 1993, ch. 518, Sec. 12, eff from and after date said ch. 518, is effectuated under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended and extended.