Section 78.22 - Police officers of village; powers. - Michigan Statutes

THE HOME RULE VILLAGE ACT (EXCERPT)
Act 278 of 1909

78.22 Police officers of village; powers.

Sec. 22.

When any person has committed or is suspected of having committed any crime or misdemeanor within a village, whether incorporated under the provisions of this act or under an existing charter of the village heretofore granted or passed by the legislature for the government of a village, or has escaped from any prison of such a village, the police officers of such village shall have the same right to pursue, arrest and detain such person without the village limits as the sheriff of the county.

History: 1909, Act 278, Eff. Sept. 1, 1909 ;-- Am. 1913, Act 95, Imd. Eff. Apr. 21, 1913 ;-- CL 1915, 2864 ;-- CL 1929, 1784 ;-- CL 1948, 78.22