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S12822018 Regular Session

Amends existing law to clarify terminology regarding sheriffs.

COUNTIES -- Amends existing law to clarify terminology regarding sheriffs.

COUNTIES

STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

This legislation is to correct terminology in Idaho Code by removing all references to a sheriff's department and replacing each reference with terminology indicating a sheriff's office, within the meaning of an elected office of sheriff. It also amends Idaho Code by adding a new section and revising Idaho Transportation Department's standard two-letter exempt license plate designators table by replacing "SD" for Sheriff's Department with "SO" for Sheriff's Office. These corrections serve to instruct sheriffs, their staff, and others to avoid the use of 'sheriff's department' to identify the 'sheriff's office' where this incorrect terminology engenders a misunderstanding as to the true nature of the elected office of sheriff within county government.

HOW THEY VOTED

house Chamber· Mar 6, 2018

House Third Reading

✓ Passed
66 Yea
0 Nay
4 absentPassed by 94.29 votes

LATEST ACTION

Session Law Chapter 93 Effective: 07/01/2018

BILL INFO

Session
2018
Chamber
senate
Status date
Mar 14, 2018

LINKS

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