§ 5-7. Power of police to arrest without warrants.

Any officer or member of the police department may arrest without warrant, any person who shall, in view of such officer or member, commit, or threaten or attempt to commit any crime or do or attempt to do any act or thing forbidden or prohibited by law or by any ordinance made by lawful authority, or who shall in such presence resist or be engaged in resisting the lawful enforcement of any such law or ordinance or any official order made pursuant to any statute of this state. And any person so arrested shall thereafter be treated, disposed of and punished as any other person duly arrested for a misdemeanor, unless other provision is made for the case by law.

(N.Y. Laws 1905, Ch. 685, § 7)

State law reference

Arrest without warrants, Criminal Procedure Law, § 140.10.