Sec. 29-19. Special policemen for utility and transportation companies.
Sec. 29-19. Special policemen for utility and transportation companies. (a) The
Commissioner of Public Safety may, upon the application of any electric, gas, telephone,
telegraph or water company owning, leasing, maintaining, managing or controlling any
property, plant or equipment in this state, commission, during his pleasure, one or more
persons designated by such company who, having been sworn, may act at the expense
of such company as policemen upon the premises used or occupied by such company
in its business, or upon any highway adjacent to such premises, for the proper protection
of such plant or property, and each policeman so appointed may arrest and take before
some proper authority any person in his precinct for any offense committed therein.
Said commissioner may exercise such supervision and direction over any policeman
appointed as herein provided as he deems necessary. When any such commission is
issued or revoked, said commissioner shall notify the clerk of the superior court for each
judicial district in which it is intended that such policeman shall act.
(b) Said commissioner may, upon application of any railroad, express company or
steamboat company, engaged in the business of transportation in this state, or upon the
application of any corporation owning or having control of the roads in any private
residence park, commission, during his pleasure, one or more persons designated by
such company or by such corporation, who, having been sworn, may act, at the expense
of such company or corporation, as policemen upon the premises used by such company
in its business, or upon its cars or vessels, or upon the roads and land owned by or under
the control of such corporation, and each policeman so appointed may arrest and take
before some proper authority any person in his precinct for any offense committed
therein. When any such commission is issued or revoked, said commissioner shall notify
the clerk of the superior court for each judicial district in which it is intended that such
policeman shall act. Each such policeman shall, when on duty, wear in plain view a shield
bearing the words "railroad police", "steamboat police", "express company police" or
"special police", as the case may be, and the name of the company for which he is
commissioned.
(1949 Rev., S. 3661; 1963, P.A. 153; P.A. 77-614, S. 486, 610; P.A. 78-280, S. 2, 127; P.A. 85-246, S. 18.)
History: 1963 act authorized appointment of express company police in Subsec. (b); P.A. 77-614 replaced commissioner
of state police with commissioner of public safety, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 78-280 substituted "judicial district"
for "county"; P.A. 85-246 deleted reference to street railway companies and street railway police in Subsec. (b).
See Sec. 25-44 re appointment of special police for protection of water supplies.