Section 158Sec./Art. 158

Publicity of, and Order, during the Proceedings of the Board. - The meetings of the board shall be public and shall be held only in the polling place designated by the Commission.

The board shall have full authority to keep order within the polling place and its environs, to keep access thereto open and unobstructed, and to enforce obedience of its lawful commands. If any person shall refuse to obey a lawful command of the board, or shall conduct himself in a disorderly manner in its presence or within its hearing and thus interrupt or disturb its work or the proceedings in connection with the voting and counting of votes, the board may issue an order in writing directing any peace officer to take such offending person into custody until the adjournment of the meeting; but such order shall not be executed as to prevent the person so taken into custody from exercising his right to vote at such election.

Such order shall be executed by any peace officer to whom it may be delivered, but if none shall be present, by any other person deputized thereto by the board in writing.