Ohio § 2963.20 Governor demand fugitive from this state

Ohio Statutes

§ 2963.20 — Governor demand fugitive from this state

Ohio § 2963.20

Title 29Crimes-Procedure

Ch. 2963Extradition

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Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2963.20 (2026).

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Whenever the governor demands a person charged with crime,  with escaping from confinement, or with breaking the terms of  the person's bail or parole in this state or violating the conditions of a community control sanction or post-release control sanction imposed 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  that demand under the laws of the United States,  the governor shall issue a warrant under the seal of this state, to  an agent, commanding  the agent to receive the person so charged and convey  that person to the proper officer of the county in which the offense was committed.

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Whenever the governor demands a person charged with crime, with escaping from confinement, or with breaking the terms of the person's bail or parole in this state or violating the conditions of a community control sanction or post-release control sanction imposed 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 that demand under the laws of the United States, the governor shall issue a warrant under the seal of this state, to an agent, commanding the agent to receive the person so charged and convey that person to the proper officer of the county in which the offense was committed.