Printable Format32-1048. Conservation officers and employees; arrest powers. Any officer or other employee of the department who meets the criteria specified in subsection (a) of K.S.A. 32-808, and amendments thereto, and any other Kansas law enforcement officer authorized to enforce the laws of this state shall have the power to arrest pursuant to the authority granted in subsection (b) of K.S.A. 32-808, and amendments thereto, at any place in the state of Kansas, any person or persons found violating any laws of the state, and rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to chapter 32 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto, and to bring such persons immediately before the nearest proper judge of the district court of the county within which such violation took place for trial.
History: L. 1943, ch. 173, § 2; L. 1969, ch. 211, § 2; L. 1975, ch. 223, § 3; L. 1976, ch. 145, § 156; L. 1989, ch. 118, § 134; L. 1997, ch. 168, § 9; May 22.
Source or prior law:
32-155.
Law Review and Bar Journal References:
Searches and arrests by game protectors on suspicion or without warrant. 30 J.B.A.K. 141 [citing an October 24, 1961, opinion of the attorney general (Vol. III, p. 351)].
Attorney General's Opinions:
Territorial limits of law enforcement authority of wildlife conservation officers. 96-82.
Natural resource officers not criminally liable for trespass on private lands in pursuit of statutory duties. 2007-37.
CASE ANNOTATIONS
1. Whether conservation officer is entitled to qualified immunity in civil rights action arising out of arrest examined. Dees v. Vendel, 856 F.Supp. 1531, 1536 (1994).