The Florida Senate

372.071  Powers of arrest by agents of Department of Environmental Protection or Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.--Any certified law enforcement officer of the Department of Environmental Protection or the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, upon receiving information, relayed to her or him from any law enforcement officer stationed on the ground, on the water, or in the air, that a driver, operator, or occupant of any vehicle, boat, or airboat has violated any section of chapter 327, chapter 328, chapter 370, or this chapter, or s. 597.010 or s. 597.020, may arrest the driver, operator, or occupant for violation of said laws when reasonable and proper identification of the vehicle, boat, or airboat and reasonable and probable grounds to believe that the driver, operator, or occupant has committed or is committing any such offense have been communicated to the arresting officer by the other officer stationed on the ground, on the water, or in the air.

History.--s. 1, ch. 70-396; s. 1, ch. 79-217; s. 242, ch. 94-356; s. 1000, ch. 95-148; s. 123, ch. 99-245; s. 14, ch. 2000-364.