33-5-76
Section 33-5-76 Authority to arrest at scene of boating accident. A uniformed police officer, state trooper, state law enforcement officer, state marine police officer, county sheriff, a deputy, or a member of a municipal police force, may arrest, at the scene of a boating accident, any operator of a boat or vessel involved in the accident if upon personal investigation, including information from eyewitnesses, the officer has reasonable grounds to believe that the person, by violating Section 32-5A-191.3, contributed to the accident. The law enforcement officer may arrest the person without a warrant although the officer did not personally see the violation. (Acts 1994, No. 94-652, p. 1243, §30.)...
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15-10-14
Section 15-10-14 Detention and arrest of person suspected of larceny of goods held for sale. (a) A peace officer, a merchant or a merchant's employee who has probable cause for believing that goods held for sale by the merchant have been unlawfully taken by a person and that he can recover them by taking the person into custody may, for the purpose of attempting to effect such recovery, take the person into custody and detain him in a reasonable manner for a reasonable length of time. Such taking into custody and detention by a peace officer, merchant or merchant's employee shall not render such police officer, merchant or merchant's employee criminally or civilly liable for false arrest, false imprisonment or unlawful detention. (b) Any peace officer may arrest without warrant any person he has probable cause for believing has committed larceny in retail or wholesale establishments. (c) A merchant or a merchant's employee who causes such arrest as provided for in subsection (a) of...
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31-2A-10
Section 31-2A-10 (Article 10.) Restraint of persons charged with offenses. Any person subject to this code charged with an offense under this code may be ordered into arrest or confinement, as circumstances may require. When any person subject to this code is placed in arrest or confinement prior to trial, immediate steps shall be taken to inform the person of the specific wrong of which the person is accused and diligent steps shall be taken to try the person or to dismiss the charges and release the person. (Act 2012-334, p. 790, §1.)...
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36-21-60
Section 36-21-60 Definitions. When used in this article, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) ALABAMA SHERIFF'S ASSOCIATION. The Alabama Sheriff's Association, as now or hereafter constituted. (2) ASSOCIATION. The Alabama Peace Officers' Association, as now or hereafter constituted. (3) ASSOCIATION OF CHIEFS OF POLICE. The Alabama Association of Chiefs of Police, as now or hereafter constituted. (4) BOARD. The board of commissioners of the fund and any successors thereto. (5) EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR. The executive director of the board. (6) FUND. The Alabama Peace Officers' Annuity and Benefit Fund created in Section 36-21-66. (7) MEMBER. Any peace officer who is a member of the fund and who is in good standing by virtue of having paid all sums required by this article to be paid by him. (8) MEMBERSHIP SERVICE. The period of employment of a member as a peace officer from the date he or she...
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12-25-38
Section 12-25-38 Revocation of post-release supervision status. (a) Offenders who fail to comply with the conditions of post-release supervision as specified by the Board of Pardons and Paroles may have their release status revoked. (b) At any time during the period of post-release supervision, the Board of Pardons and Paroles may issue a warrant and may cause the offender to be arrested for violating any of the conditions of post-release supervision. (c) Any probation officer, police officer, or other officer with power of arrest, when requested by the probation officer or other supervising officer, may arrest an offender under post-release supervision without a warrant. To arrest the offender without a warrant, the arresting officer shall have a written statement by the probation officer or other supervising officer declaring that the offender under post-release supervision, in his or her judgment, has violated the conditions of post-release supervision. The statement shall be...
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13A-3-27
Section 13A-3-27 Use of force in making an arrest or preventing an escape. (a) A peace officer is justified in using that degree of physical force which he reasonably believes to be necessary, upon a person in order: (1) To make an arrest for a misdemeanor, violation or violation of a criminal ordinance, or to prevent the escape from custody of a person arrested for a misdemeanor, violation or violation of a criminal ordinance, unless the peace officer knows that the arrest is unauthorized; or (2) To defend himself or a third person from what he reasonably believes to be the use or imminent use of physical force while making or attempting to make an arrest for a misdemeanor, violation or violation of a criminal ordinance, or while preventing or attempting to prevent an escape from custody of a person who has been legally arrested for a misdemeanor, violation or violation of a criminal ordinance. (b) A peace officer is justified in using deadly physical force upon another person when...
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15-22-76
Section 15-22-76 Discharge; arrest for violation of parole, with or without warrant; brought before parole officer; hearing; serving sentence upon revocation. Upon the expiration of the period of parole the parolee shall be discharged. At any time during the period of parole the parolee may be arrested for the violation of any condition of his parole, and after a hearing by the board his parole shall be subject to revocation. Any parole officer, police officer or other law enforcement officer may arrest a parolee with or without a warrant for the violation of any condition of his parole. In case of an arrest without a warrant, the arresting officer shall have a written statement by a parole officer setting forth that parolee has, in the judgment of the parole officer, violated the conditions of his parole. Such statement shall be sufficient warrant for the detention of said parolee until he can be brought before a parole officer. Such parole officer, after advising said parolee in...
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22-12-20
Section 22-12-20 Attempted escapes and escapes from detention. Should a person who has been legally placed in detention by a county health officer or quarantine officer attempt to make his escape, such person may be forcibly detained or, should such person make his escape, complaint, on oath, may be made before the judge of probate or a judge of the circuit, district or municipal court of the county or municipality where the escape or attempted escape occurs, by the county health officer or quarantine officer, whereupon such judge of probate or the judge of the circuit, district or municipal court to which such complaint was made, shall issue a warrant authorizing a sheriff, bonded constable or other lawful officer to arrest such person and return him to detention. (Code 1852, §966; Code 1867, §1217; Code 1876, §1511; Code 1886, §1267; Code 1896, §2402; Code 1907, §753; Code 1923, §1219; Acts 1935, No. 444, p. 926; Code 1940, T. 22, §152.)...
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22-12-26
Section 22-12-26 Arrests without warrants. Any legal quarantine officer or guard may, without warrant, arrest a person who attempts to violate a quarantine regulation and carry such person either to a designated place of detention or before an officer having jurisdiction of such offense. (Code 1907, §7070; Code 1923, §4372; Code 1940, T. 22, §170.)...
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26-14-6
Section 26-14-6 Temporary protective custody. A police officer, a law enforcement official, or a designated employee of the State or County Department of Human Resources may take a child into protective custody, or any person in charge of a hospital or similar institution or any physician treating a child may keep that child in his or her custody, without the consent of the parent or guardian, whether or not additional medical treatment is required, if the circumstances or conditions of the child are such that continuing in his or her place of residence or in the care and custody of the parent, guardian, custodian, or other person responsible for the child's care presents an imminent danger to that child's life or health. However, such official shall immediately notify the court having jurisdiction over juveniles of such actions in taking the child into protective custody; provided, that such custody shall not exceed 72 hours and that a court of competent jurisdiction and the...
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