§ 45-16-10 - Employment of special constables by steamboat companies and railroads. - Rhode Island Statutes

SECTION 45-16-10

   § 45-16-10  Employment of specialconstables by steamboat companies and railroads. – A special constable shall also at the request of any railroad company, or anyproper officer or agent of these companies, and upon being paid the sum ofthirty cents ($.30) for each hour of service required, attend at any regularsteamboat wharf or landing, and any regular railroad passenger station, for thepurpose of preventing the assembling, crowding, and remaining at those placesof all idle, noisy, and disorderly persons to the obstruction, annoyance, andinconvenience of the common and public travel, going and returning by the wayof those stations, and may arrest without warrant and detain not exceeding six(6) hours, any idle and noisy persons found by the constable in the act ofwillfully and idly intruding at those places, and there remaining whencommanded to depart by the constable.