Section 438:15 Police Powers, Right of Entry and Stoppage. - New-hampshire Statutes

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With respect to the enforcement of this chapter and any other law dealing with weights and measures that he is or may be empowered to enforce, the commissioner, or his inspectors at his direction, is hereby vested with special police powers, and is authorized to arrest, without formal warrant, any violator of said laws, and to seize for use as evidence, without formal warrant, incorrect or unsealed weights and measures or amounts or packages of commodity found to be used, retained, offered, or exposed for sale or sold in violation of law. In the performance of his official duties, the commissioner is authorized to enter and go into or upon, without formal warrant, any structure or premises, and to stop any person whatsoever and to require him to proceed, with or without any vehicle of which he may be in charge, to some place which the commissioner may specify.

Source. 1985, 72:1, eff. July 1, 1985.

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With respect to the enforcement of this chapter and any other law dealing with weights and measures that he is or may be empowered to enforce, the commissioner, or his inspectors at his direction, is hereby vested with special police powers, and is authorized to arrest, without formal warrant, any violator of said laws, and to seize for use as evidence, without formal warrant, incorrect or unsealed weights and measures or amounts or packages of commodity found to be used, retained, offered, or exposed for sale or sold in violation of law. In the performance of his official duties, the commissioner is authorized to enter and go into or upon, without formal warrant, any structure or premises, and to stop any person whatsoever and to require him to proceed, with or without any vehicle of which he may be in charge, to some place which the commissioner may specify.

Source. 1985, 72:1, eff. July 1, 1985.

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With respect to the enforcement of this chapter and any other law dealing with weights and measures that he is or may be empowered to enforce, the commissioner, or his inspectors at his direction, is hereby vested with special police powers, and is authorized to arrest, without formal warrant, any violator of said laws, and to seize for use as evidence, without formal warrant, incorrect or unsealed weights and measures or amounts or packages of commodity found to be used, retained, offered, or exposed for sale or sold in violation of law. In the performance of his official duties, the commissioner is authorized to enter and go into or upon, without formal warrant, any structure or premises, and to stop any person whatsoever and to require him to proceed, with or without any vehicle of which he may be in charge, to some place which the commissioner may specify.

Source. 1985, 72:1, eff. July 1, 1985.