When it shall be necessary for the preservation of the public peace, good order and common decency, or the protection of life, liberty, person or property of individuals, the Town Marshal shall have the authority, and it shall be the duty of such Marshal, to arrest the body of offending parties who have violated the law in the presence of such Marshal, without warrant, and take such person or persons before the mayor of said town as early as practicable, to be dealt with as the law directs, and for every resistance of such authority by such offenders or others, the party so resisting shall be punished as the ordinances of said town shall provide, and if necessary the Marshal shall have power to call to his aid any bystander to assist in making any legal arrest, and anyone so summoned or called, who refuses or fails to arrest, shall, upon conviction before the mayor, be punished as the ordinances of said town shall prescribe.
(Pr. L. 1899, c. 339, Sec. 7)
Editor’s note:
Section 3 of Chapter 339, Private Laws of 1899, provided for election of a town marshal; however, the rewriting of that section by c. 507, S.L. 1947, did not carry forward the office of marshal.