ORD CC 01/15/1962 - PD Arrest without warrant AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING POLICEMEN IN THE CITH OF
HUNTSVILLE IN THE EXERCISE OF THEIR SOUND DISCRETION
TO ARREST WITHOUT WARRANT THEREFOR., PERSONS FOUND
IN SUSPICIOUS PLACES, OR ANY PERSON FOUND UNDER CIR-oLC yj -
STANCES REASONABLY TENDING TO SHOW THAT SUCH PERSON
HAS BEEN GUILTY OF SOME FELONY OR BREACH OF THE PEACE,
OR VIOLATION OF SOME MUNICIPAL ORDINANCE, OR ABOUT TO
COMMIT SOME OFFENCE AGAINST SOME STATE LAW OR AGAINST
SOME MUNICIPAL ORDINANCE.
Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Huntsville, Texas:
ALL policemen in the City of Huntsville, in the exercise of their sound
discretion, may arrest without a warrant therefor, any person or persons found
in suspicious places, or any person or persons found under circumstances rea-
sonably tending to show that such person or persons have been guilty of some
felony or breach of the peace, or violation of some municipal ordinance or
about to commit some offence against some state Law or against some municipal
ordinance.
ALL ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith, are hereby
repeated.
On motion duty made and seconded the above and foregoing ordinance was
duly past at the regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Huntsville on
the .. day of 1961.
A TTEST: MAYOR
SECRETARY