Chapter 237

2008 -- H 7148 SUBSTITUTE A AS AMENDED

Enacted 07/05/08

A N A C T

RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES - EMERGENCY POLICE POWER

Introduced By: Representative Peter F. Kilmartin

Date Introduced: January 16, 2008

It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:

     SECTION 1. Section 45-42-1 of the General Laws in Chapter 45-42 entitled "Emergency

Police Power" is hereby amended to read as follows:

45-42-1. Emergency police power. -- (a) When the police chief of a city or town within

the state or his or her designee requests emergency police assistance from another police

department within the state, the officers responding to the request shall be subject to the authority

of the requesting chief and have the same authority, powers, duties, privileges, and immunities as

a duly appointed police officer of the city or town making the request, until the requesting chief

of police discharges and releases the assisting police officers to their own departments.

(b) Law enforcement officers from out-of-state shall have limited emergency police

powers to transport, guard and maintain custody of any person who is arrested out of state, but

transported to a Rhode Island medical facility for emergency medical treatment. Prior to entry

into Rhode Island, the out-of-state police department maintaining custody of said arrested person

shall notify the Rhode Island state police of the transport and the site of the emergency medical

treatment. The emergency police powers granted shall cease immediately upon the expiration of

eight (8) hours from the time of notification, or upon a fugitive-from-justice warrant being

executed, whichever shall arise first.

     SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage.

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