Sec. 432.010.  IMPOSITION OF RESTRAINT.  (a)  In this subchapter:
(1)  "Arrest" means the restraint of a person by an order, not imposed as a punishment for an offense, directing the person to remain within certain specified limits.
(2)  "Confinement" means the physical restraint of a person.
(b)  An enlisted member may be ordered into arrest or confinement by a commissioned officer by an oral or written order delivered in person, through other persons subject to this chapter, or through a person authorized by this chapter to apprehend persons.  A commanding officer may authorize warrant officers or noncommissioned officers to order enlisted members of the officer's company or subject to the officer's authority into arrest or confinement.
(c)  A commissioned officer or warrant officer may be ordered apprehended or into arrest or confinement only by a commanding officer to whose authority the person is subject, by an oral or written order delivered in person or by another commissioned officer.  The authority to order such persons apprehended or into arrest or confinement may not be delegated.
(d)  A person may not be ordered apprehended or into arrest or confinement except for probable cause.
(e)  This section does not limit the authority of persons authorized to apprehend offenders to secure the custody of an alleged offender until the proper authority may be notified.
Amended by: 
Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 807 (H.B. 2417), Sec. 3, eff. September 1, 2011.