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2011 Arizona Revised Statutes
Title 13 Criminal Code
13-3801 Preventing offenses; aiding officer

Universal Citation:
AZ Rev Stat § 13-3801 (1996 through 1st Reg Sess 50th Legis)
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13-3801. Preventing offenses; aiding officer

A. Public offenses may be prevented by intervention of peace officers as follows:

1. By requiring security to keep the peace.

2. Forming a police detail in cities and towns and requiring their attendance in exposed places.

3. Suppressing riots.

B. When peace officers are authorized to act in preventing public offenses, other persons, who, by their command, act in their aid, are justified in so doing.

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