California Penal Code CHAPTER 4 - Proceedings Against Fugitives From Justice

• Section 1547.
  (a) The Governor may offer a reward of not more than fifty thousand dollars ($50,000), payable out of the General Fund, for information leading to the...
• Section 1548.
  As used in this chapter:(a) “Governor” means any person performing the functions of Governor by authority of the law of this State.(b) “Executive authority” means the Governor...
• Section 1548.1.
  Subject to the provisions of this chapter, the Constitution of the United States, and the laws of the United States, it is the duty of...
• Section 1548.2.
  No demand for the extradition of a person charged with crime in another State shall be recognized by the Governor unless it is in writing...
• Section 1548.3.
  When a demand is made upon the Governor of this State by the executive authority of another State for the surrender of a person so...
• Section 1549.
  When it is desired to have returned to this state a person charged in this state with a crime, and the person is imprisoned or...
• Section 1549.1.
  The Governor of this state may also surrender, on demand of the executive authority of any other state, any person in this state charged in...
• Section 1549.2.
  If a demand conforms to the provisions of this chapter, the Governor or agent authorized in writing by the Governor whose authorization has been filed...
• Section 1549.3.
  Such warrant shall authorize the peace officer or other person to whom it is directed:(a) To arrest the accused at any time and any place where...
• Section 1550.
  Every peace officer or other person empowered to make the arrest hereunder shall have the same authority, in arresting the accused, to command assistance therefor...
• Section 1550.1.
  No person arrested upon such warrant shall be delivered over to the agent of the executive authority demanding him unless he is first taken forthwith...
• Section 1550.2.
  Any officer or other person entrusted with a Governor’s warrant who delivers to the agent of the demanding State a person in his custody under...
• Section 1550.3.
  The officer or persons executing the Governor’s warrant of arrest, or the agent of the demanding State to whom the prisoner has been delivered may...
• Section 1551.
  (a) Whenever any person within this State is charged by a verified complaint before any magistrate of this State with the commission of any crime in...
• Section 1551.05.
  (a) Any person on outpatient status pursuant to Title 15 (commencing with Section 1600) of Part 2 or pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section 2972 who...
• Section 1551.1.
  The arrest of a person may also be lawfully made by any peace officer, without a warrant, upon reasonable information that the accused stands charged...
• Section 1551.2.
  At the initial appearance of a person arrested under Section 1551 or 1551.1, he shall be informed of the reason for his arrest and of...
• Section 1551.3.
  Immediately upon the arrest of the person charged, the magistrate must give notice thereof to the district attorney. The district attorney must immediately thereafter give...
• Section 1552.
  If at the hearing before the magistrate, it appears that the accused is the person charged with having committed the crime alleged, the magistrate must,...
• Section 1552.1.
  Unless the offense with which the prisoner is charged, is shown to be an offense punishable by death or life imprisonment under the laws of...
• Section 1552.2.
  If the accused is not arrested under warrant of the Governor by the expiration of the time specified in the warrant, bond, or undertaking, a...
• Section 1553.
  If the prisoner is admitted to bail, and fails to appear and surrender himself according to the conditions of his bond, the magistrate, by proper...
• Section 1553.1.
  (a) If a criminal prosecution has been instituted against a person charged under Section 1551 under the laws of this state and is still pending, the...
• Section 1553.2.
  The guilt or innocence of the accused as to the crime with which he is charged may not be inquired into by the Governor or...
• Section 1554.
  The Governor may recall his warrant of arrest or may issue another warrant whenever he deems it proper.(Repealed and added by Stats. 1937, Ch. 554.)
• Section 1554.1.
  Whenever the Governor of this State shall demand the return of a person charged with crime in this State or with escaping from confinement or...
• Section 1554.2.
  (a) When the return to this state of a person charged with crime in this state is required, the district attorney shall present to the Governor...
• Section 1554.3.
  After a person has been brought back to this state by extradition proceedings, the person shall be committed to a county jail with bail set...
• Section 1555.
  A person brought into this State on, or after waiver of extradition based on a criminal charge shall not be subject to service of process...
• Section 1555.1.
  Any person arrested in this state charged with having committed any crime in another state or alleged to have escaped from confinement, or broken the...
• Section 1555.2.
  (a) If the arrested person refuses to sign a waiver of extradition under Section 1555.1, a hearing shall be held, upon application of the district attorney,...
• Section 1555.3.
  Nothing in this chapter shall be deemed to constitute a waiver by this state of its right, power or privilege to try any demanded person...
• Section 1556.
  After a person has been brought back to this State by extradition proceedings, he may be tried in this State for other crimes which he...
• Section 1556.1.
  The provisions of this chapter shall be so interpreted and construed as to effectuate its general purposes to make uniform the law of those states...
• Section 1556.2.
  This chapter may be cited as the Uniform Criminal Extradition Act.(Added by Stats. 1937, Ch. 554.)
• Section 1557.
  (a) This section shall apply when this state or a city, county, or city and county employs a person to travel to a foreign jurisdiction outside...
• Section 1558.
  No compensation, fee, profit, or reward of any kind can be paid to or received by a public officer of this state, a corporation or...

Last modified: October 22, 2018