(a) Any employee of the operating authority may be designated as a warden.(b) Wardens shall have the authority to arrest or apprehend any person whom they believe to have violated this chapter, or the boating laws of this state, or the rules and regulations of the operating authority which are authorized in this chapter, or the rules of the State Board of Health pertaining to protection of municipal water supplies and may take the offender when apprehended before any court having jurisdiction of the offense. Wardens shall have no authority to make arrests for violation of the game and fish laws, rules, and regulations of this state.Amended by Act 2019, No. 315,§ 1032, eff. 7/24/2019.Acts 1959, No. 204, § 7; A.S.A. 1947, § 19-4237.
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