SECOND REGULAR SESSION
94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE JONES (117).
Read 1st time February 7, 2008 and copies ordered printed.
D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal section 221.515, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the power of jailers.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Section 221.515, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 221.515, to read as follows:
221.515. 1. Any person designated a jailer under the provisions of this chapter shall have the power to serve [an arrest warrant] civil process and arrest warrants on any person who surrenders himself or herself to the facility under an arrest warrant or is already an inmate in the custody of the facility in or at which such jailer is employed.
2. Under the rules and regulations of the sheriff, employees designated as jailers may carry firearms when necessary for the proper discharge of their duties as jailers in this state under the provisions of this chapter.
3. Such persons authorized to act by the sheriff as jailers under the rules and regulations of the sheriff shall have the same power as granted any other law enforcement officers in this state to arrest escaped prisoners and apprehend all persons who may be aiding and abetting such escape while in the custody of the sheriff in accordance with state law.
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