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Home » US Law » 2022 Alaska Statutes » Title 12. Code of Criminal Procedure » Chapter 70. Uniform Criminal Extradition Act

Sec. 12.70.210. Fugitives from this state.

When the governor of this state demands a person charged with crime or with escaping from confinement or breaking the terms of bail, probation, or parole in this state from the executive authority of any other state, or from a judge of the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia authorized […]

Sec. 12.70.220. Application for issuance of requisition.

(a) When the return to this state of a person charged with a crime in this state is required, the prosecuting attorney of the judicial district in which the offense is committed, or the attorney general, shall present to the governor a written application for a requisition for the return of the person charged. In […]

Sec. 12.70.230. Immunity from service of process in certain civil actions.

A person brought into this state by or after waiver of extradition based on a criminal charge shall not be subject to service of personal process in civil actions arising out of the same facts as the criminal proceeding for which the person is being or has been returned, until the person has been convicted […]

Sec. 12.70.240. Written waiver of extradition proceedings.

(a) A person arrested in this state charged with having committed a crime in another state or alleged to have escaped from confinement, or broken the terms of bail, probation, or parole may waive the issuance and service of the warrant provided for in AS 12.70.060 and 12.70.070 and all other procedure incidental to extradition […]

Sec. 12.70.250. Nonwaiver by this state.

Nothing in this chapter is considered to constitute a waiver by this state of its right, power, or privilege to try the demanded person for crime committed within this state, or of its right, power, or privilege to regain custody of that person by extradition proceedings or otherwise for the purpose of trial, sentence, or […]

Sec. 12.70.270. Interpretation.

The provisions of this chapter shall be so interpreted and construed as to effectuate the general purposes to make uniform the law of those states that enact it.

Sec. 12.70.280. Definitions.

In this chapter, (1) “executive authority” includes the governor and a person performing the functions of governor in a state other than this state; (2) “governor” includes (A) a person performing the functions of governor by authority of the law of this state; and (B) the lieutenant governor or the head of a principal department […]