12-547 Failure to make return on execution; five year limitation
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Arizona Code › Title 12 › Chapter 5 › Article 3 › Section 547
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12-547. Failure to make return on execution; five year limitation
When execution has issued and no return is made thereon, the party in whose favor the execution was issued may proceed against the sheriff or other officer and his sureties for not making return within five years from the day on which it was returnable, and not afterward.
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