New York Consolidated Laws, Education Law - EDN § 4111. Arrest of truants

Any attendance officer may arrest without warrant anywhere within the state any Indian child between six and sixteen years of age, found away from his home and who is then a truant from instruction upon which he is lawfully required to attend within the districts of which such attendance officer has jurisdiction.  He shall forthwith deliver a child so arrested either to the person in parental relation to the child, or to the teacher of the school from which said child is then a truant, or in case of habitual truants, shall bring them before a magistrate for commitment to a school for delinquents, as provided in section forty-one hundred twelve of this article.