§ 26. [Same—]Warrants.

The municipal court judge of the City of Riverdale shall be authorized to issue warrants for any offense under any law or ordinance of the City of Riverdale or this state, and when the offense is against state law and not covered by municipal law or ordinance, may hear evidence and commit to jail or take bond for appearance before the grand jury or a state court having jurisdiction to try the same. If the offense charged in the warrant be one against any law or ordinance of the City of Riverdale, the arresting officer shall carry the case before the municipal court, where same shall be disposed of as other cases of arrest not under warrant. All warrants issued by the judge, or any one authorized to preside in the municipal court, shall be directed to the "Chief of Police of the City of Riverdale, any law enforcement officer thereof, and to all and singular the sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, and constables of the State of Georgia," and any one of said officers shall have authority to execute warrants.

(1957 Ga. Laws, page 2791; 1982 Ga. Laws, page 5320; 1989 Ga. Laws, page 5250)