| Chapter 542 |
| 2016 -- S 2118 AS AMENDED Enacted 09/26/2016 |
| A N A C T |
| RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- EMERGENCY POLICE POWER |
| Introduced By: Senator Gayle L. Goldin |
| Date Introduced: January 21, 2016 |
| It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: |
| SECTION 1. Section 45-42-1 of the General Laws in Chapter 45-42 entitled "Emergency |
| Police Power" is hereby amended to read as follows: |
| 45-42-1. Emergency police power. -- (a) When the police chief of a city or town within |
| the state, or his or her designee, requests emergency police assistance from another city or town |
| police department within the state, the officers responding to the request shall be subject to the |
| authority of the requesting chief and have the same authority, powers, duties, privileges, and |
| immunities as a duly appointed police officer of the city or town making the request, until the |
| requesting chief of police discharges and releases the assisting police officers to their own city or |
| town departments. |
| (b) Law enforcement officers from out-of-state out of state shall have limited |
| emergency police powers to transport, guard, and maintain custody of any person who is arrested |
| out of state, but transported to a Rhode Island medical facility for emergency medical treatment. |
| Prior to entry into Rhode Island, the out-of-state police department maintaining custody of said |
| arrested person shall notify the Rhode Island state police of the transport and the site of the |
| emergency medical treatment. The emergency police powers granted shall cease immediately |
| upon the expiration of eight (8) hours from the time of notification, or upon a fugitive-from- |
| justice warrant being executed, whichever shall arise first. |
| SECTION 2. Chapter 45-42 of the General Laws entitled "Emergency Police Power" is |
| hereby amended by adding thereto the following section: |
| 45-42-3. Mutual aid; Campus police officer. -- (a) Any public or private educational |
| institution of higher learning located in this state, with a police or other public safety department |
| consisting of campus police officers appointed pursuant to chapter 52 of title 16, may enter a |
| mutual aid agreement with the city or town in which the institution is primarily located, solely for |
| the purpose of providing emergency assistance in response to specific incidents at the request of |
| the police chief of the city or town. Officers appointed under this chapter must have satisfactorily |
| completed a training academy certified by the Police Officer's Commission on Standards and |
| Training. |
| (b) The mutual aid agreement will not be effective until formally approved by the city or |
| town council in which the institution is located, after a public hearing and by the governing body |
| or office of the institution of higher learning. |
| (c) The special police officers responding to a request for emergency assistance pursuant |
| to a duly approved mutual aid agreement shall have the same authority, powers, duties, privileges, |
| and immunities for jurisdictional purposes as a duly appointed police officer of the city or town |
| making the request. |
| (d) The special police officers responding to the request for emergency assistance under |
| the mutual aid agreement shall be subject to, and considered within, the control and authority of |
| the requesting chief of police for the duration of the emergency and until released by the |
| requesting chief of police. |
| SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon passage. |
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