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SECTION 2
Exemption of members and officers from arrest
Legislative (LEG) CHAPTER 32, ARTICLE 2
§ 2. Exemption of members and officers from arrest. A member of the
legislature shall be privileged from arrest in a civil action or
proceeding other than for a forfeiture or breach of trust in public
office or employment, while attending upon its session, and for fourteen
days before and after each session, or while absent for not more than
fourteen days during the session with the leave of the house of which he
is a member.

An officer of either house shall be privileged from arrest in such a
civil action or proceeding while in actual attendance upon the house.
Either house shall have the power to discharge from arrest any of its
members or officers arrested in violation of his privilege from arrest.