2006 Nebraska Revised Statutes - § 16-323 — Chief of police; police officers; powers and duties.

Section 16-323
Chief of police; police officers; powers and duties.

The chief of police shall have the immediate superintendence of the police. He or she and the police officers shall have the power and the duty to arrest all offenders against the laws of the state or of the city, by day or by night, in the same manner as a sheriff and to keep such offenders in the city prison or other place to prevent their escape until a trial or examination may be had before the proper officer. The chief of police and police officers shall have the same power as the sheriff in relation to all criminal matters arising out of a violation of a city ordinance and all process issued by the county court in connection with a violation of a city ordinance.

Source:

Laws 1901, c. 18, § 30, p. 238

R.S.1913, § 4889

C.S.1922, § 4057

C.S.1929, § 16-319

R.S.1943, § 16-323

Laws 1972, LB 1032, § 103

Laws 1979, LB 80, § 26

Laws 1988, LB 1030, § 4

Cross References:

Ticket quota requirements,prohibited, see section 48-235.

Annotations:

Cited but not discussed. Frederickson v. Albertsen, 183 Neb. 494, 161 N.W.2d 712 (1968).

~Reissue Revised Statutes of Nebraska