N.Y. Defense Emergency Act 1951 784/51 § 85: Powers of peace officers

§ 85. Powers of peace officers. Any peace officer or any person

employed as watchman, guard or in a supervisory capacity on premises

posted in accordance with the provisions of section eighty-three of this

act may stop any person found on any premises so posted and may detain

him for the purpose of demanding, and may demand, of him his name,

address and reason for being in such place. If such peace officer or

employee has reason to believe from the answers of the person so

interrogated or from his behavior or other attendant facts or

circumstances that such person does not have permission to be in such

place, such peace officer may forthwith arrest such person without a

warrant on the charge of violating the provisions of such section or

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

arrest him without a warrant on the charge of violating the provisions

of such section.