Statutes > Arkansas Statutes > Title 20 - Public Health And Welfare > Subtitle 3 - Mental Health > Chapter 47 - Treatment of the Mentally Ill > Subchapter 1 - General Provisions > § 20-47-101 - Officers' duty to arrest insane and drunken persons.

§ 20-47-101 - Officers' duty to arrest insane and drunken persons.

20-47-101. Officers' duty to arrest insane and drunken persons.

It shall be the duty of all peace officers to arrest any insane or drunken persons whom they may find at large and not in the care of some discreet person. The officer shall take him or her before some magistrate of the county, city, or town in which the arrest is made.