New Hampshire Revised Statutes 169-B:9 – Arrest or Taking Minor Into Custody
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I. A police officer or juvenile probation and parole officer may, without taking a minor into custody, refer the minor to the department for a needs assessment. Upon receiving such referral, the department shall conduct the needs assessment using the same process for obtaining consent as required in N.H. Rev. Stat. § 169-B:10, I-a for cases referred to the department after a minor is taken into custody.
I-a. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as forbidding any juvenile probation and parole officer from immediately arresting or taking into custody any minor who is found violating any law, or who is reasonably believed to be a fugitive from justice, or whose circumstances are such as to endanger such minor’s person or welfare, unless immediate action is taken.
II. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as forbidding any police officer from immediately taking into custody any minor who is found violating any law, or whose arrest would be permissible under N.H. Rev. Stat. § 594:10, or who is reasonably believed to be a fugitive from justice, or whose circumstances are such as to endanger such minor’s person or welfare, unless immediate action is taken.
I-a. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as forbidding any juvenile probation and parole officer from immediately arresting or taking into custody any minor who is found violating any law, or who is reasonably believed to be a fugitive from justice, or whose circumstances are such as to endanger such minor’s person or welfare, unless immediate action is taken.
Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 169-B:9
- Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
- justice: when applied to a magistrate, shall mean a justice of a municipal court, or a justice of the peace having jurisdiction over the subject-matter. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:12
- person: may extend and be applied to bodies corporate and politic as well as to individuals. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:9
- Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
II. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as forbidding any police officer from immediately taking into custody any minor who is found violating any law, or whose arrest would be permissible under N.H. Rev. Stat. § 594:10, or who is reasonably believed to be a fugitive from justice, or whose circumstances are such as to endanger such minor’s person or welfare, unless immediate action is taken.