§ 17.200. Duties of Police Officers.

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It shall be the duty of each Police Officer, at such time of the day or night he may be on duty, to preserve the public peace, prevent crime and protect the rights of persons and property and to arrest all offenders against the laws of the State and to take such offenders to the nearest commissioner for said County; and to this end the Police Officer or Officers so appointed shall be Peace Officers in and for Howard County.

(1894, Ch. 496, § 101B; P.L.L. 1930, Art. 14, § 232; 1947, Ch. 666, § 232)

                    
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