The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
NOTE: The Vermont Statutes Online is an unofficial copy of the Vermont Statutes Annotated that is provided as a convenience.
(Cite as: 18 V.S.A. § 9103)
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§ 9103. Duty of Governor
When the executive authority of any state demands of the Governor any fugitive within
the purview of section 9102 of this title and produces a copy of the commitment, decree, or other judicial process and proceedings,
certified as authentic by the Governor or chief magistrate of the state whence the
person so charged has filed, with an affidavit made before a proper officer showing
the person to be such a fugitive, the Governor shall cause him or her to be apprehended
and secured, if found in this State, and to cause immediate notice of his or her apprehension
to be given to the executive authority making such demand, or to the agent of such
authority appointed to receive the fugitive, and to cause the fugitive to be delivered
to such agent when he or she shall appear. If such agent does not appear within 30
days from the time of the apprehension, the fugitive may be discharged. All costs
and expenses incurred in apprehending, security, maintaining, and transmitting such
fugitive to the state making such demand, shall be paid by such state. An agent so
appointed who receives the fugitive into his or her custody shall be empowered to
transport him or her to the state from which he or she has fled. The Governor is
hereby vested with the power, on the application of any person interested, to demand
the return to this State of any fugitive within the purview of this chapter. (Added 1967, No. 305 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 1968.)