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RSA 105:12 · Powers

Title: VII: SHERIFFS, CONSTABLES, AND POLICE OFFICERS
Chapter: 105 · POLICE OFFICERS AND WATCHMEN
Status: current
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105:12 Powers. – Every watchman may arrest any person whom he shall find committing any disorder, disturbance, crime, or offense, or such as are strolling about the streets at unreasonable hours, who refuse to give an account, or are reasonably suspected of giving a false account, of their business or design, or who can give no account of the occasion of their being abroad. Source. RS 115:3. CS 121:3. GS 235:11. GL 253:10. PS 249:10. PL 363:12. RL 422:13.

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Source. RS 115:3. CS 121:3. GS 235:11. GL 253:10. PS 249:10. PL 363:12. RL 422:13.

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RS 115:3. CS 121:3. GS 235:11. GL 253:10. PS 249:10. PL 363:12. RL 422:13

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y present in the United States, for whom different public safety and immigration enforcement considerations apply. 2 New Subdivision; Post-Arrest Photograph Distribution. Amend RSA 105 by inserting after section 19 the following new subdivision: Post-Arrest Photograph Distribution 105:20 Post-Arrest Photograph Distribution; Limitations. I. In this section: (a) "Nonviolent offense" means a