§ 4193. Seizure; power to arrest
(a) The Chief Game Warden and State and deputy game wardens shall seize fish or wild animals taken or held in violation of a provision of this part or regulations or orders authorized under this part. They may arrest, without warrant and on view, in any part of the State, a person violating a provision of this part or regulations or orders authorized under this part and take such person before a magistrate having jurisdiction of the offense and detain such person in custody at the expense of the State until opportunity is had to notify a prosecuting officer, who shall forthwith prosecute such offender.
(b) While the State of New York shall have in effect a law similar to this subsection for the arrest and punishment of violations of the conservation or fish laws of this State or the State of New York, committed or attempted to be committed by any person fishing in that portion of Lake Champlain lying between such states, any game protector, game warden, sheriff, deputy sheriff or other person of either state, who is authorized to make arrests for violations of the conservation or fish laws of such states, shall have power and authority to make arrest on any part of such lake between such states or the shores thereof and to take the person so arrested for trial to the state in which the violation was committed and there to prosecute such person according to the laws of such state. (Added 1961, No. 119, § 1, eff. May 9, 1961.)
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