27:19-36.3 - Appointment of bridge police; authority; procedure on arrest - New Jersey Statutes

27:19-36.3.  Appointment of bridge police;  authority;  procedure on arrest
    Notwithstanding any of the provisions of the article of which this act is a  supplement, any county bridge commission created pursuant to said article may  appoint policemen and all policemen so appointed are hereby authorized and  empowered to make arrests on view and without warrant on Sunday or any other  day for crimes, misdemeanors and offenses of any character, or for disorder or  breach of the peace or violations of any rules and regulations adopted by such  county bridge commissions, committed within the jurisdiction of this State on  any bridge owned by or under the control of such county bridge commission, or  at the approaches thereof, or on any other property owned by or under the  control of such commission.  In addition, such policemen shall have all the  powers conferred by law on police officers or constables in the enforcement of  laws in this State and the apprehension of violators.

    Any person so arrested shall be conducted by the officer to a municipal magistrate of the political subdivision in which the arrest is made or, if there is no such available magistrate, to the nearest available magistrate in any other political subdivision.

    Any policeman may, instead of arresting an offender as herein provided, serve upon him a summons.

     L.1960, c. 168, p. 709, s. 1.