§ 4-1-12 - Entry of premises where bird or animal fights are conducted – Arrest – Seizure of birds or animals. - Rhode-island Statutes

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SECTION 4-1-12

§ 4-1-12 Entry of premises where bird oranimal fights are conducted – Arrest – Seizure of birds or animals.– Any sheriff, deputy sheriff, town sergeant, constable, police officer or anyofficer authorized to serve criminal process may enter any place, building, ortenement anywhere within the state, where there is an exhibition of thefighting of birds or animals, or where preparations are being made for thatexhibition, and without a warrant, arrest all persons present, and takepossession of the birds or animals engaged in fighting, and all birds oranimals found there and intended to be used or engaged in fighting. Thosepersons shall be kept in custody in jail or other convenient place not morethan twenty-four (24) hours, Sundays and legal holidays excepted, at or beforethe expiration of which time those persons shall be brought before a districtcourt or the superior court and proceeded against according to law.

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SECTION 4-1-12

§ 4-1-12 Entry of premises where bird oranimal fights are conducted – Arrest – Seizure of birds or animals.– Any sheriff, deputy sheriff, town sergeant, constable, police officer or anyofficer authorized to serve criminal process may enter any place, building, ortenement anywhere within the state, where there is an exhibition of thefighting of birds or animals, or where preparations are being made for thatexhibition, and without a warrant, arrest all persons present, and takepossession of the birds or animals engaged in fighting, and all birds oranimals found there and intended to be used or engaged in fighting. Thosepersons shall be kept in custody in jail or other convenient place not morethan twenty-four (24) hours, Sundays and legal holidays excepted, at or beforethe expiration of which time those persons shall be brought before a districtcourt or the superior court and proceeded against according to law.

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SECTION 4-1-12

§ 4-1-12 Entry of premises where bird oranimal fights are conducted – Arrest – Seizure of birds or animals.– Any sheriff, deputy sheriff, town sergeant, constable, police officer or anyofficer authorized to serve criminal process may enter any place, building, ortenement anywhere within the state, where there is an exhibition of thefighting of birds or animals, or where preparations are being made for thatexhibition, and without a warrant, arrest all persons present, and takepossession of the birds or animals engaged in fighting, and all birds oranimals found there and intended to be used or engaged in fighting. Thosepersons shall be kept in custody in jail or other convenient place not morethan twenty-four (24) hours, Sundays and legal holidays excepted, at or beforethe expiration of which time those persons shall be brought before a districtcourt or the superior court and proceeded against according to law.