Failing to return process or making false return

North Carolina General Statutes

Section: 14-242

Jurisdiction: NC

Bluebook Citation: N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-242

If any sheriff, deputy, or other officer, whether State or municipal, or any person who presumes to act as any such officer, not being by law authorized so to do, willfully refuses to return any precept, notice or process, to him tendered or delivered, which it is his duty to execute, or willfully makes a false return thereon, the person who willfully refused to make the return or willfully made the false return shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.

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