Section 34. Arrest and conviction of offender  


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  • The public welfare officials
      shall see that the provisions of this  article  are  enforced  in  their
      respective towns. Any citizen may arrest any person trading as a peddler
      who  neglects  or  refuses  to  produce his license on demand, and shall
      immediately convey such person before some justice of the peace  of  the
      county.  If  the  fact  that the person so arrested has traded without a
      license be proved to the satisfaction of the justice, he  shall  convict
      such  person  of  an offense against this article and on such conviction
      shall issue his warrant to some constable of the county, commanding such
      constable to levy and collect from the personal property of the offender
      the sum of twenty-five dollars, with the costs of  the  proceeding,  not
      exceeding  five  dollars. The penalty collected on such warrant shall be
      paid by the justice to the public welfare official of the town where the
      offense was committed.
        If it appears in said proceeding that the person arrested  refused  to
      produce  his  license or to disclose his name when lawfully required, no
      costs shall be allowed such defendant, nor shall he maintain  an  action
      for false imprisonment.