Vermont § 4193 - Seizure; power to arrest

§ 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.)