You must first fill out a pistol permit application and return it to the Legal Services Division, Civil Office at the Sheriff's Office. Applications are available at the Civil Office. Once the application has been turned in, the clerks will inform the applicant to check back with the Civil Office. At that point a background check will be done on the applicant. This process usually takes approximately three weeks. Once this process has been completed and the applicant has not been found to have any serious criminal convictions in their history, the applicant will be able to come to the Civil Office where a pistol permit will be issued. The Cost of a permit is twenty dollars and it will be valid for one year.

For more information see our Pistol Permit Brochure

Any felony conviction, conviction for theft offenses, or convictions for any type of domestic violence offenses. Persons that have been charged with the listed offenses, as well as any other offenses and the record does not reflect the status in that case, it will be the responsibility of the applicant to provide documentation as to the status of the charge in question.

Retired Law Enforcement Officers can obtain a Life Time Pistol Permit by bringing their credentials to the Civil Division at the Sheriff's Office and the permit will be issued at no cost to the retiree. The Pistol Permit will be valid for the lifetime of the Retired Officer.

A Notice of Eviction is to notify persons to vacate the premises in which they reside, along with all their personal belongings. A person is served a Notice of Eviction for failure to pay rent, sanitary reasons, of for dealing drugs in a public housing complex.

In order to obtain a Notice of Eviction, the owner of the property must follow these procedures:

1. The owner of the property or an agent sends a letter, by regular mail, giving the tenant a ten day notice to vacate the property.
2. After the required ten day notice, and the tenant has not vacated the premises, the property owner must proceed to the District Court office where the Notice         of eviction can be filed.

Once the Notice of Eviction is sent to the Legal Services Division of the Sheriff's Office, a Deputy will serve this notice by one of the following means:

1. By personally servicing the tenant or any other person at the residence.
2. By leaving the notice attached to the front door of the residence.
3. If the notice is left attached to the front door of the residence, a second copy will be sent by regular mail to the tenant.

The tenant is allowed by law seven days, not counting the day the notice was served, to file a Counter Affidavit in the Legal Service Division of the Sheriff's Office or to vacate the premises. If the seventh day falls on a weekend or holiday, the defendant is allowed the next working day to vacate or file the Counter Affidavit. If a Counter Affidavit is filed, a court date will be given at the time that the affidavit is filed. This court date will usually be within forty-eight hours. No action will be taken against the tenant until the court rules on the case. If a Counter Affidavit is not filed, the process will proceed.

At this point in the process, the property owner or an agent contacts the Deputy that is assigned the eviction process and schedules to have the tenant and all of their belongings removed from the property. The labor for this removal will be provided by the owner of the property. As a courtesy, to the tenant, if they have not vacated or filed a Counter Affidavit by the seventh day a green notice will be attached to the front door of the residence. This notice will give the time and date that all belongings will be removed from the residence. It should be noted that this notice is not mandatory by law. This is a service provided by the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office to give a tenant one last chance to remove their belongings by the scheduled date given on the green notice or their belongings will be removed from the residence and placed by the street. This action will be supervised by a Deputy from the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office. Once this action has been completed and the door has been secured, the eviction process is complete. It should be noted that the removal of property process will not be done in inclement weather.

If a notice, that the Sheriff's Office has attampted to serve papers at your residence or business, has been left, this office will do everything it can to assist you in completing this service. First thing you should do is call the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office at 832-4980, and confirm that the court papers were for you. If court papers were meant to be served to you, a Deputy will attempt to bring them back to the address that is on the court papers as soon as possible. If you would like to pick the court papers up yourself you can do so by coming to the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office, which is located on the corner of South Perry Street and Washington Avenue. The Sheriff's Office is open twenty-four hours a day and seven days a week.