Section 42.21a - Police officers; right to pursue, arrest, and detain person outside of charter township limits. - Michigan Statutes

THE CHARTER TOWNSHIP ACT (EXCERPT)
Act 359 of 1947

42.21a Police officers; right to pursue, arrest, and detain person outside of charter township limits.

Sec. 21a.

If a person has committed a civil infraction violation under the Michigan vehicle code, Act No. 300 of the Public Acts of 1949, being sections 257.1 to 257.923 of the Michigan Compiled Laws, within a charter township, or has committed or is suspected of having committed any crime within a charter township, or has escaped from any prison or jail in the charter township, the police officers of that charter township shall have the same right to pursue, arrest, and detain the person outside of the charter township limits as does the sheriff of the county.

History: Add. 1983, Act 9, Imd. Eff. Mar. 18, 1983