Title 18 — Crimes and Criminal ProcedureRelease 119-73not60
§3605 Transfer of Jurisdiction Over a Probationer
Title 18 › Part II— CRIMINAL PROCEDURE › Chapter 229— POSTSENTENCE ADMINISTRATION › Subchapter A— PROBATION › § 3605
Summary
After a person is sentenced, a court may send the person's probation or supervised release case to another federal district court if the person must or is allowed to go there and that other court agrees. The receiving court can accept another transfer later the same way and can use all the powers that federal law allows to supervise and enforce the person's probation or release.
Full Legal Text
Title 18, §3605
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A court, after imposing a sentence, may transfer jurisdiction over a probationer or person on supervised release to the district court for any other district to which the person is required to proceed as a condition of his probation or release, or is permitted to proceed, with the concurrence of such court. A later transfer of jurisdiction may be made in the same manner. A court to which jurisdiction is transferred under this section is authorized to exercise all powers over the probationer or releasee that are permitted by this subchapter or subchapter B or D of chapter 227.
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Effective Date
Section effective Nov. 1, 1987, and applicable only to offenses committed after the taking effect of this section, see section 235(a)(1) of Pub. L. 98–473, set out as a note under section 3551 of this title.
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Citation
18 U.S.C. § 3605
Title 18 — Crimes and Criminal Procedure
Last Updated
Apr 5, 2026
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