Pennsylvania Act 1897-25 — CONSTABLES AUTHORITY TO ARREST SUSPECTED OFFENDERS WITHOUT WARRANTS

Act text

CONSTABLES AUTHORITY TO ARREST SUSPECTED OFFENDERS WITHOUT WARRANTS
                  Act of Apr. 29, 1897, P.L. 29, No. 25               Cl. 32
                                  AN ACT

     To authorize constables and other peace officers, without first
        procuring a warrant, to arrest persons reasonably suspected
        by them of offending against the laws protecting timber
        lands.

        Section 1.  Constables may arrest offenders against forest
     laws without warrant
        If any person or persons shall be detected by any constable
     or other peace officer, in the act of trespassing upon any
     forest or timber land within this Commonwealth, under such
     circumstances as to warrant the reasonable suspicion that such
     person or persons have committed, are committing, or are about
     to commit some offense or offenses against any of the laws now
     enacted or hereafter to be enacted for the protection of forests
     and timber land, such constable or other peace officer shall
     have authority at once, without first procuring a warrant
     therefor, to arrest on view such person or persons, with like
     effect as though such warrant had first been procured.  (1897,
     April 29, P.L. 29, Sec. 1.)