2025 Session
Last amended: 1986 session
§ 626.16 — Delivery of Copy of Warrant and Receipt
Plain-Language Summary
This section makes it illegal for anyone to knowingly resist or interfere with a peace officer who is serving a search warrant. Doing so is a misdemeanor.
626.16 DELIVERY OF COPY OF WARRANT AND RECEIPT.
When the officer conducts the search the officer must give a copy of the warrant and, when property or things are taken, a receipt therefor (specifying it in detail) to the person in whose possession the premises or the property or things taken were found; or, in the absence of any person, the officer must leave such copy of the warrant and receipt in the place where the property or things were found. Such delivery of a copy of the warrant shall constitute service.
History:
1963 c 849 s 14; 1986 c 444
History: History: 1963 c 849 s 14; 1986 c 444
Practical Notes
You would care about this if you are present when police carry out a search warrant. Interfering with the search or resisting the officers is a crime.