N.Y. Defense Emergency Act 1951 784/51 § 106: Powers of members of municipal and volunteer agencies to detain for misdemeanors or infractions

§ 106. Powers of members of municipal and volunteer agencies to detain

for misdemeanors or infractions. Any person who is a member of a

municipal or volunteer agency, in the course of his duty as such and

while wearing or displaying a distinguishing brassard or other insignia

indicative of authority, may stop and detain any person on account of a

misdemeanor or infraction committed by such person in the presence of

such member, and may forthwith turn him over to a peace officer who may

arrest him without a warrant on the charge of committing the violation

constituting the misdemeanor or infraction.