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Over their four-year term, a county sheriff is responsible for:Serving as county tax collector in counties where a separate position doesn't exist.Executing court summons, enforcing judgments, orders, injunctions, garnishments, serving evictions, and making arrests on warrants issued by the courts.Preserving the peace, preventing/detecting/investigating criminal activity, control of crowds at public events, control of traffic at accidents, protecting property during emergencies. Custody of the county jail and the people incarcerated within it. This includes providing food and health care to people in jail as they wait for bond or the outcome of their court case. (Note: not every county has a jail, but the sheriff's department still would be responsible for transporting people to the jail they use and to/from court).Record keeping related to law enforcement and people in jail.https://www.uaex.uada.edu/business-communities/ced-blog/posts/2022/may/what-is-a-county-sheriff.aspx______________________________________________________________Over their four-year term, a county tax collector is responsible for:Sending out tax bills to all property owners in the countyCollecting tax payments owed to county, city, school, improvement districtsTurning over the tax payments to the county treasurer every monthPreparing a list every year of people who haven’t paid their taxes to publish in the newspaperIn counties where there is a combined sheriff-collector position, the office also collects court fineshttps://www.uaex.uada.edu/business-communities/ced-blog/posts/2022/may/what-is-a-county-collector.aspx