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Section 29-1-8 - Penalty for refusing to aid officer; action to recover.

29-1-8. [Penalty for refusing to aid officer; action to recover.]

If any person shall refuse or neglect to obey the summons of any such officer, such person shall be fined in any sum not exceeding fifty dollars [($50.00)], nor less than five dollars [($5.00)], to be recovered by suit before any justice of the peace [magistrate], to the use of the county in which said suit may originate.