The governor of the state of Colorado shall appoint the attorney general of the state of Colorado as the commissioner who shall represent the state of Colorado upon any joint commission representing the state of Colorado and any other state, to be constituted by the state of Colorado and any such other state, and particularly by the state of Colorado and any state adjoining it, for the purpose of negotiating and entering into any agreements or compacts, with the consent of congress heretofore granted as aforesaid, for cooperative effort and mutual assistance in the prevention of crime and in the enforcement of the respective criminal laws and policies of the state of Colorado and such other state and for the establishment of such agencies, joint or otherwise, as they may mutually deem to be desirable for making effective such agreements or compacts.
Source: L. 35: p. 592, � 2. CSA: C. 153, � 38. CRS 53: � 74-2-2. C.R.S. 1963: � 74-2-2.
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.