Chapter 222
2008 -- H 7580
SUBSTITUTE A
Enacted 07/05/08
A N A C T
RELATING
TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE - ARREST
Introduced
By: Representatives Gallison, Rice, Silva, Moffitt, and Carter
Date
Introduced: February 26, 2008
It is enacted by the General Assembly as
follows:
SECTION 1. Section
12-7-21 of the General Laws in Chapter 12-7 entitled "Arrest" is
hereby amended to read as follows:
12-7-21.
"Peace officer" defined. -- "Peace officer", as
used within this chapter, means
the following individuals or members of:
(1) Rhode Island
state police;
(2) Any member of
a municipal or local police department;
(3) Rhode Island
marshals,
(4) Rhode Island
airport corporation police;
(5) Rhode Island
park police;
(6) Rhode Island
capitol police;
(7) Rhode Island
conservation officers;
(8) Rhode Island
department of environmental management officers;
(9) Rhode Island
fire marshals;
(10) Brown
University police officers;
(11) University
of Rhode Island campus police officers;
(12) Rhode Island
College campus security;
(13) Campus
security at the Community College of Rhode Island;
(14) Rhode Island
sheriff's department;
(15) Rhode Island
drug enforcement officers;
(16) The
investigators of the department of attorney general appointed pursuant to
section 42-9-8.1;
(17) The
director, assistant director, and other inspectors and agents of the Rhode
Island
state fugitive task force appointed pursuant to
section 12-6-7.2;
(18) Any federal
law enforcement officer;
(19) Correctional
investigators and correctional officers of the Rhode Island department
of corrections;
(20) The witness protection
coordinator of the department of attorney general; and
(21) The warden,
associate wardens, majors, captains, lieutenants, sergeants, correctional
officers and investigators employed by a project
operated by a municipal detention facility
corporation, including, but not limited to, the
Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility; provided, such
parties listed in this subsection (21) herein
shall be deemed to be peace officers while in
performance of their duties for the municipal
detention facility only, and shall not be deemed to
be peace officers at any time when they are not
in performance of said duties.; and
(22) Retired
non-permanent sworn members of any municipal police department shall be
deemed to be peace officers only while in the
performance of their duties for any municipal
police department, and shall be permitted to
carry their firearm while in the performance of their
duties for the municipal police department, and
shall be subject to in-service training
requirements of title 42, chapter 28.
SECTION 2. This
act shall take effect upon passage.
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