Missouri Laws 43.190 – Authority to arrest, pursue violators
Terms Used In Missouri Laws 43.190
- Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
- hereafter: means the time after the statute containing it takes effect. See Missouri Laws 1.020
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Members of the patrol: the superintendent, lieutenant colonel, majors, captains, director of radio, lieutenants, sergeants, corporals, and troopers of the Missouri state highway patrol. See Missouri Laws 43.010
- Patrol: the Missouri state highway patrol. See Missouri Laws 43.010
- Peace officers: sheriffs, police officers and other peace officers of this state. See Missouri Laws 43.010
- person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Missouri Laws 1.020
- Radio personnel: those employees of the patrol engaged in the construction, operation, and maintenance of the patrol radio system. See Missouri Laws 43.010
- State: when applied to any of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" includes such district and territories. See Missouri Laws 1.020
- Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.
The members of the patrol, with the exception of the director of radio and radio personnel, are hereby declared to be officers of the state of Missouri and shall be so deemed and taken in all courts having jurisdiction of offenses against the laws of this state. The members of the patrol shall have the powers now or hereafter vested by law in peace officers except the serving or execution of civil process. The members of the patrol shall have authority to arrest without writ, rule, order or process any person detected by him in the act of violating any law of this state. When a member of the patrol is in pursuit of a violator or suspected violator and is unable to arrest such violator or suspected violator within the limits of the district or territory over which the jurisdiction of such member of the patrol extends, he shall be and is hereby authorized to continue in pursuit of such violator or suspected violator into whatever part of this state may be reasonably necessary to effect the apprehension and arrest of the same and to arrest such violator or suspected violator wherever he may be overtaken.