TITLE VII SHERIFFS, CONSTABLES, AND POLICE OFFICERS
CHAPTER 105 POLICE OFFICERS AND WATCHMEN
Section 105:12
105:12 Powers. –
Every watchman may arrest any person whom he shall find committing any disorder, disturbance, crime, or offense, or such as are strolling about the streets at unreasonable hours, who refuse to give an account, or are reasonably suspected of giving a false account, of their business or design, or who can give no account of the occasion of their being abroad.