Delaware § 6706 Arresting power

Delaware Statutes

§ 6706 — Arresting power

Delaware § 6706

Title16

PartSafety

Ch. 67AUTHORITY OF FIRE DEPARTMENTS AND FIRE POLICE WITHIN THE STATE

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Del. Code tit. 16, § 6706 (2026).

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If any person unreasonably refuses to obey the orders of a fire police officer in the exercise of the fire police officer’s duties, such person may be held under arrest by the fire police officer until the fire at which the fire police officer is called upon to act is extinguished or the fire drill completed at which time the fire police shall take the arrested person before a justice of the peace and charge the arrested person with failure to obey the order of a fire police officer.

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If any person unreasonably refuses to obey the orders of a fire police officer in the exercise of the fire police officer’s duties, such person may be held under arrest by the fire police officer until the fire at which the fire police officer is called upon to act is extinguished or the fire drill completed at which time the fire police shall take the arrested person before a justice of the peace and charge the arrested person with failure to obey the order of a fire police officer.