Powers of members of municipal and volunteer agencies to detain for misdemeanors or infractions

N.Y. Defense Emergency Act 1951 784/51 § 106, under Violations and Penalties; Peace Officers.

N.Y. Defense Emergency Act 1951 784/51 § 106

§ 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.