HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 2938        FILED ON: 1/14/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 2264

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act Relative to the State Police ..

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

SECTION 1. Chapter 37 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2006 Official Edition, is hereby amended by striking out section 13 and inserting the following new section in place of:-

“As it directly relates to transporting or confining a person for which they are responsible, they may require suitable aid in the execution of their office in a criminal case, in the preservation of the peace, in the apprehending or securing of a person for a breach of the peace and in cases of escape or rescue of persons arrested upon civil process; provided further that this authority shall not be construed as allowing sheriffs, deputy sheriffs or special sheriffs to exercise police powers apart from the transporting or confining of a person for which they are responsible.”