2016 -- H 8064 | |
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STATE OF RHODE ISLAND | |
IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY | |
JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2016 | |
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A N A C T | |
RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- ARREST | |
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Introduced By: Representatives Craven, McEntee, and Lombardi | |
Date Introduced: April 13, 2016 | |
Referred To: House Judiciary | |
It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: | |
1 | SECTION 1. Section 12-7-19 of the General Laws in Chapter 12-7 entitled "Arrest" is |
2 | hereby amended to read as follows: |
3 | 12-7-19. Arrest after close pursuit by officers from cities or towns Stop after close |
4 | pursuit by officers from cities or towns. -- Any member of a duly organized municipal peace |
5 | unit of another city or town of the state who enters any city or town in close pursuit and continues |
6 | within any city or town in such close pursuit of a person in order to arrest stop him or her on the |
7 | ground that he or she has violated the motor vehicle code in the other city or town shall have the |
8 | same authority to arrest and hold in custody the person as members of a duly organized municipal |
9 | peace unit of any city or town have to arrest and hold in custody a person on the ground that he or |
10 | she has violated the motor vehicle code in any city or town for a suspected violation of any |
11 | provision of the motor vehicle code committed in the other city or town, shall be vested with all |
12 | of the same authority as a member of a duly organized municipal peace unit of the city or town |
13 | within which the stop occurs. |
14 | SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage. |
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EXPLANATION | |
BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL | |
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RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- ARREST | |
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1 | This act would amend the authority powers of a city or town peace unit that is acting in |
2 | close pursuit of a suspect and would also amend the purpose of the pursuit from "arrest" to "stop". |
3 | This act would take effect upon passage. |
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