Cite as: 21 CNCA § 535

Every public officer or person pretending to be a public officer, who under the pretense or color of any process or other legal authority arrests any person, or detains him against his will, or seizes or levies upon any property, or dispossesses anyone of any lands or tenements without due and legal process, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Historical Data

LA 10–90, eff. November 13, 1990. Amended LA 28-20, eff. December 14, 2020.