---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 U.S.C. § 564"
title: "28"
title_heading: "Judiciary and Judicial Procedure"
number: "564"
heading: "Powers as sheriff"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/28/564"
units:
  - "Part II — Department of Justice"
  - "Chapter 37 — United States Marshals Service"
---

# §564. Powers as sheriff


United States marshals, deputy marshals and such other officials of the Service as may be designated by the Director, in executing the laws of the United States within a State, may exercise the same powers which a sheriff of the State may exercise in executing the laws thereof.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 100–690, title VII, § 7608(a)(1), Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4513.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 564, added Pub. L. 89–554, § 4(c), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 619, related to bonds of United States marshals, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 92–310, title II, § 206(a)(1), June 6, 1972, 86 Stat. 203.