Colorado § 24-60-103 - Compacts designed to suppress crime and enforce the criminal laws, etc.

§ 24-60-103. Compacts designed to suppress crime and enforce the criminal laws, etc.

(1) The agreements or compacts so authorized to be negotiated and entered into under the provisions of this part 1 shall be designed to suppress crime, to circumvent the activities of criminals and to expedite their apprehension and trial, and to enforce generally the respective criminal laws and policies of the state of Colorado and any other state entering thereinto at any time with the state of Colorado; and, in order to effectuate those purposes, such agreements or compacts may contain specific provisions for the accomplishment of the following objects, or any of them, in respect to which a mutual understanding may be had, namely:

(a) The arrest of any person who may have fled from any one of such compacting states into another by any pursuing officer of the compacting state from which such person has fled;

(b) The return of any witness deemed essential in the prosecution of any criminal case who may have gone or fled from the compacting state in which his presence may be required into any other compacting state;

(c) The establishment and maintenance by any two or more of such compacting states of facilities for the investigation of crime and the discovery of criminals, such as crime detection agencies, bureaus of registration and identification, crime laboratories, and like agencies; and

(d) The proper supervision of any person who, having been paroled or granted probation in one of such compacting states, may have become a resident of any of such compacting states.

(2) Any agreements or compacts so authorized to be negotiated and entered into as aforesaid shall in all respects conform with the purposes for which the consent of the congress has been granted for their execution; but any agreements or compacts so entered into on behalf of the state of Colorado and any other state shall not be binding upon either of said states, or upon the respective citizens thereof, unless and until such agreements or compacts have been ratified and approved by the respective legislatures of the several states entering into the same.

Source: L. 35: p. 592, § 3. CSA: C. 153, § 39. CRS 53: § 74-2-3. C.R.S. 1963: § 74-2-3.

ANNOTATION

Provisions concerning arrest of fleeing persons are not a substitute for extradition laws. In re Austjford, 109 Colo. 47, 121 P.2d 891 (1942).