Enacted 05/27/14
A N A C T
RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE - CAPITOL POLICE OFFICERS' POWERS
Introduced By: Representatives Mattiello, Silva, Johnston, O'Brien, and Ackerman
Date Introduced: February 27, 2014
It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:
SECTION 1. Section 12-2.2-2 of the General Laws in Chapter 12-2.2 entitled "Capitol Police for Public Buildings" is hereby amended to read as follows:
12-2.2-2. Powers of capitol police officers. --
Upon issuance of a license under section §12-2.2-1, the person so
designated as a capitol police officer shall have the same immunities and may
exercise, in and upon the lands and buildings owned or
leased by the state of Rhode Island and assigned to the Rhode Island
public buildings authority, or to any municipal or
private facility in which a state agency or a state court is convening a public
meeting or public hearing, and upon streets and highways immediately
adjacent to those lands, the same powers and authority of a police officer, as
are conferred by the laws of this state upon members of the division of state
police, including the power to arrest persons for violation of state criminal
statutes or for violation of city or town ordinances of the city or town in
which the state property is located.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage.
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