Title 13 — Criminal Code

A. Public offenses may be prevented by intervention of peace officers as follows: 1. By requiring security to keep the peace. 2. Forming a police detail in cities and towns and requiring their attendance in exposed places. 3. Suppressing riots. B. When peace officers are authoriz…

A. When a sheriff or other public officer authorized to execute process finds or has reason to believe that resistance will be made to execution of the process, the officer may command as many inhabitants of the county as the officer deems proper to assist in overcoming the resis…

The mayor or other officer having direction of the police of a city or town shall order a force, sufficient to preserve the peace, to attend any public meeting, when apprehensive of a breach of the peace.

A. Where any number of persons, whether armed or not, are unlawfully or riotously assembled, the sheriff and his deputies, officials governing the city or town, peace officers or justices of the peace and constables, or any of them, shall go among the persons assembled, or as nea…

A. A physician, surgeon, nurse or hospital attendant called upon to treat any person for gunshot wounds, knife wounds or other material injury which may have resulted from a fight, brawl, robbery or other illegal or unlawful act, shall immediately notify the chief of police or th…

A complaint may be laid before a magistrate that a person has threatened to commit an offense against the person or property of another.

When the complaint is laid before the magistrate, he shall examine, on oath, the complainant and any witness he produces, and if there is just reason to believe that the commission of the offense threatened by the person complained of is imminent, the magistrate shall issue a sum…

A. When the person complained of appears or is brought before the magistrate, if the charge is controverted the magistrate shall hear and determine it. B. If it appears that there is no just reason to believe the commission of the offense alleged to have been threatened is immine…

A. If the bond required by section 13-3813 is given, the party complained of shall be discharged. If such person does not give the bond, the magistrate shall commit him to jail, specifying in the commitment or warrant the requirement to give security, the amount thereof and the o…

Upon conviction of the person complained against of any breach of the peace, the condition of bond is violated, and the county attorney shall thereupon commence action upon it in the name of the state. In the action, the offense charged in the record of conviction shall be allege…

A person who, in the presence of a court or magistrate, assaults or threatens to assault another, or to commit an offense against his person or property, or who contends with another with angry words, may be ordered by the court or magistrate to give bond as required in this arti…

1. Unlawful imprisonment pursuant to section 13-1303 if the victim is under eighteen years of age and the unlawful imprisonment was not committed by the child's parent. 2. Kidnapping pursuant to section 13-1304 if the victim is under eighteen years of age and the kidnapping was n…

A. Within seventy-two hours, excluding weekends and legal holidays, after moving to or from the person's residence or to a different county or after changing the person's name or address, a person who is required to register under this article shall inform the sheriff in person a…

Except for use by law enforcement officers and for dissemination as provided in section 41-1750, a statement, photograph or fingerprint required by this article shall not be made available to any person.

A. A person who is subject to registration under this article and who fails to comply with the requirements of this article is guilty of a class 4 felony. B. Notwithstanding subsection A of this section, a person who fails to comply with section 13-3821, subsection J is guilty of…

A. Within seventy-two hours after a person who was convicted or adjudicated guilty except insane is released from confinement or who was accepted under the interstate compact for the supervision of parolees and probationers and has arrived in this state, the agency that had custo…

A. A defendant who is ordered or required to register pursuant to section 13-3821 for an offense committed in violation of this title and who successfully completes a term of probation may petition the court for an order to terminate any duty to register and shall serve a copy of…

A. The department of public safety shall establish and maintain an internet sex offender website for the purpose of providing sex offender information to the public. The internet sex offender website shall include the following offenders: 1. Any offender whose risk assessment has…

A. The sex offender management board is established within the department of public safety and consists of members who represent urban and rural areas of this state, who have expertise in adult and juvenile issues that relate to sex offenders and who are appointed as follows: 1. …

A. The department of public safety may enter into a contract with a qualified vendor to provide a data monitoring and alert system for persons who are found to be either criminal street gang members pursuant to section 13-105 or persons who are required to register pursuant to se…

In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "State" includes the District of Columbia. 2. "Close pursuit" does not necessarily imply instant pursuit, but pursuit without unreasonable delay, and includes: (a) Close pursuit as defined by the common law. (b) Pursuit o…

A member of a duly organized state, county or municipal law enforcement agency of another state who enters this state in close pursuit, and continues within this state in close pursuit of a person in order to arrest him on the ground that he is believed to have committed a felony…

If an arrest is made in this state by an officer of another state in accordance with the provisions of section 13-3832, he shall without unnecessary delay take the person arrested before a magistrate of the county in which the arrest was made, who shall conduct a hearing for the …

Section 13-3832 shall not be construed to make unlawful any arrest in this state which would otherwise be lawful.

In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Charged with crime", "criminal charge" or "criminal offense" includes any of the following: (a) A felony or misdemeanor offense. (b) Escape from confinement or the custody of any of the following: (i) A law enforcement o…

Subject to the provisions of this article, the provisions of the Constitution of the United States controlling, and any and all acts of Congress enacted in pursuance thereof, it is the duty of the governor of this state to have arrested and delivered up to the executive authority…

A. No demand for the extradition of a person charged with crime in another state shall be recognized by the governor unless in writing and accompanied by a copy of an indictment found or by an information supported by affidavit in the state having jurisdiction of the crime, or by…

When a demand shall be made upon the governor of this state by the executive authority of another state for the surrender of a person so charged with crime, the governor may call upon the attorney general or any prosecuting officer in this state to investigate or assist in invest…

A. A warrant of extradition shall not be issued unless the documents presented by the executive authority making the demand show that: 1. Except in cases arising under section 13-3846, the accused was present in the demanding state at the time of the commission of the alleged cri…

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 such other state in the manner provided in section 13-3845 with committing an act in this state, or in a third state, intentionally resultin…

If the governor decides that the demand should be complied with, he shall sign a warrant of arrest, which shall be sealed with the state seal, and be directed to any peace officer or other person whom he may think fit to entrust with the execution thereof. The warrant must substa…

Such warrant shall authorize the peace officer or other person to whom directed to arrest the accused at any time and any place where he may be found within the state and to command the aid of all peace officers or other persons in the execution of the warrant, and to deliver the…

Every such peace officer or other person empowered to make the arrest, shall have the same authority, in arresting the accused, to command assistance therein, as peace officers have by law in the execution of any criminal process directed to them, with like penalties against thos…

A. No person arrested upon such warrant shall be delivered over to the agent whom the executive authority demanding him shall have appointed to receive him unless he has been informed of the demand made for his surrender and of the crime with which he is charged, and that he has …

Any officer who shall deliver to the agent for extradition of the demanding state a person in his custody under the governor's warrant in disobedience to section 13-3850, shall be guilty of a class 2 misdemeanor.

The officer or persons executing the governor's warrant of arrest, or the agent of the demanding state to whom the prisoner may have been delivered may, when necessary, confine the prisoner in the jail of any county or city through which he may pass; and the keeper of such jail m…

When any person within this state shall be charged on the oath of any credible person before any judge or magistrate of this state with the commission of any crime in any other state, and, except in cases arising under section 13-3846, with having fled from justice, or whenever c…

The arrest of a person may be lawfully made also by any peace officer or a private citizen without a warrant upon reasonable information that the accused stands charged in the courts of another state with a crime punishable by death or imprisonment for a term exceeding one year, …

If from the examination before the judge or magistrate it appears that the person held is the person charged with having committed the crime alleged and that he probably committed the crime and, except in cases arising under section 13-3846, that he has fled from justice, the jud…

Unless the offense with which the person is charged is an offense that is punishable by death or life imprisonment under the laws of the state in which it was committed, or the person is alleged to have escaped from jail or prison or violated the terms of release following convic…

If the accused is not arrested under warrant of the governor by the expiration of the time specified in the complaint, bond or undertaking, the judge or magistrate may discharge him or may recommit him to a further day, not to exceed sixty days, or may again take bail for his app…

If the prisoner is admitted to bail, and fails to appear and surrender himself according to the conditions of his bond, the court, by proper order, shall declare the bond forfeited; and recovery may be had thereon in the name of the state as in the case of other bonds or undertak…

A. If a criminal prosecution has been instituted against such person under the laws of this state and is still pending the governor either may surrender the person on demand of the executive authority of another state or may hold the person until the person has been tried and dis…

A. If this state initiates criminal prosecution under the laws of this state against a person who is charged pursuant to section 13-3853 or 13-3854, the length of commitment restrictions under sections 13-3855 and 13-3857 are tolled during the period that the criminal prosecution…

If after a local criminal prosecution a fugitive defendant is sentenced to serve a term of imprisonment in a correctional facility or a county jail, the court shall vacate the fugitive proceedings and shall exonerate the fugitive bond. After the proceedings are vacated and the bo…

The guilt or innocence of the accused as to the crime of which he is charged may not be inquired into by the governor or in any proceeding after the demand for extradition accompanied by a charge of crime in legal form as provided by this article shall have been presented to the …

The governor may recall his warrant of arrest, or may issue another warrant whenever he deems proper.

Whenever the governor of this state shall demand a person charged with crime in this state, from the executive authority of any other state, or from the chief justice or an associate justice of the supreme court of the District of Columbia authorized to receive such demand under …

When the return to this state of a person charged with crime in this state is required, the attorney general or county attorney of the county in which the offense is committed shall present to the governor his written application for a requisition for the return of the person cha…

A. When the governor of this state, in the exercise of the authority conferred by law, demands from the executive authority of any other state or foreign country the surrender to the authorities of this state of a fugitive from justice, the accounts of the persons employed by him…