The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
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Subchapter
002
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UNIFORM CRIMINAL EXTRADITION ACT
(Cite as: 13 V.S.A. § 4954)
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§ 4954. Arrest without a warrant
The arrest of a person may be lawfully made by an 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. When so arrested, the accused shall be taken before a Superior Court judge
as soon as may be, and complaint shall be made against him or her under oath, setting
forth the ground for the arrest as in section 4953 of this title; and thereafter his or her answer shall be heard as if he or she had been arrested
on a warrant. (Amended 1965, No. 194, § 10, operative February 1, 1967; 1973, No. 193 (Adj. Sess.), § 3, eff. April 9, 1974; 2009, No. 154 (Adj. Sess.), § 107.)