Sheriff

Sheriff is a law enforcement officer in the Kingdom of Palmshire.

Election

Palmshire is organized into counties and each county have a sheriff elected for a five-month term as provided by Sheriff Act to serve as its chief law enforcement officer. Currently, only one county exists named Blizzardshire.

Qualifications

Per the Sheriff Qualifications Act, no persons may become sheriff unless they have had experience as a moderator, are not a felon or under age of 18, and have a criminal justice degree granted by the university. A sheriff must take the oath as prescribed by Sheriff Oaths Act.

Responsibilities

Sheriffs have several responsibilities pertaining to their office:

• Per section 3 of the Sheriff Act of 2015, the sheriff may be delegated by the Crown the responsibility for conducting polling for parliamentary elections in their jurisdiction but no sheriffs who are concurrently a Member of Parliament may be permitted to conduct polling for parliamentary election in which they are candidate of.
• Per section 1 of the Sheriff Duties Act of 2015, the sheriff is responsible for
  • Enforcing Right to AFK Anywhere Act,
  • Assisting any visitors to the county for which they are elected,
  • And settling any property disputes and to call in Administrator (currently Lord Almere), to enforce Encroachment Act.
• Issuing Palmshire marriage license as provided by section 1 of Marriage License Act; The same act also authorized in section 2 the sheriff to perform marriage cerenomy at request of any couples.
• To enforce Cocaine Act and Obscenity Act
• To maintain electoral register listing eligible voters for the county in which the sheriff is elected for as provided by section 1 of Electoral Register Act;
  • Section 2 of the same act requires Sheriff to send electoral register to Home Secretary at end of every term or at request.
  • If delegated responsibility for conducting polling in parliamentary elections, Section 3 of the same act provides that the Sheriff must forward returns to the Home Secretary and publish voting results within five days of poll closing.
• To enforce Flood Control Act
• To enforce Vandalism Control Act
• To enforce Child Pornography Ban Act
• To enforce Loli Ban Act
• To enforce Anti-Harassment Act
• To enforce Privacy Act

Current Sheriff(s)

Sheriff of Blizzardshire - Sarah de la Cueva, elected since 25 August 2015 and whose five-month term will expire at 25 January 2016.