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Penal Code § 1551.1

CHAPTER 4. Proceedings Against Fugitives From Justice

Current as of September 28, 2026Pen. Code, § 1551.1Official source ↗

Amended by Stats. 1987, Ch. 828, Sec. 104.

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 in the courts of any other state with a crime punishable by death or imprisonment for a term exceeding one year, or that the person has been convicted of a crime punishable in the state of conviction by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year and thereafter escaped from confinement or violated the terms of his or her bail, probation or parole. When so arrested the accused shall be taken before a magistrate with all practicable speed and complaint shall be made against him or her under oath setting forth the ground for the arrest as in Section 1551.