Senate Engrossed

 

theft; classification; private arrest

(now:  theft; private arrest)

 

 

 

 

State of Arizona

Senate

Fifty-sixth Legislature

Second Regular Session

2024

 

 

 

SENATE BILL 1613

 

 

 

 

An Act

 

amending section 13-3884, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to theft.

 

 

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

 


Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1. Section 13-3884, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE13-3884. Arrest by private person

A private person may make an arrest:

1. When the person to be arrested has in his the private person's presence committed a misdemeanor amounting to a breach of the peace, a theft of property from a retail store or a felony.

2. When a felony has been in fact committed and he the private person has reasonable ground to believe that the person to be arrested has committed it. END_STATUTE