The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection may appoint suitable citizens in each community to assist as volunteers, without compensation, in any fish and game program of the department with the same authority as regular members of the department, except the power of enforcement or arrest.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-7
(1953, S. 2456d; 1971, P.A. 872, S. 213; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)