TITLE 12
Criminal Procedure
CHAPTER 12-7
Arrest
SECTION 12-7-19
§ 12-7-19 Arrest after close pursuit by
officers from cities or towns.
Any member of a duly organized municipal peace unit of another city or town of
the state who enters any city or town in close pursuit and continues within any
city or town in such close pursuit of a person in order to arrest him or her on
the ground that he or she has violated the motor vehicle code in the other city
or town shall have the same authority to arrest and hold in custody the person
as members of a duly organized municipal peace unit of any city or town have to
arrest and hold in custody a person on the ground that he or she has violated
the motor vehicle code in any city or town.
History of Section.
(P.L. 1974, ch. 191, § 1.)