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PUBLIC LAW 91-358-JULY 29, 1970

[84 STAT.

"(e) A person detained as provided by this section shall not be detained in jail longer than to allow a reasonable time for the person receiving the notice required by subsection (d) to apply for and obtain a proper requisition for the person detained according to the circumstances of the case and the distance of the place where the offense is alleged to have been committed. "(f)(1) At any time prior to the filing o^ a requisition, a person arrested pursuant to this section may in open court waive further proceedings pursuant to this chapter. "(2) Following waiver, a judge of the Superior Court may, in his discretion, if the United States attorney consents, release the person upon such conditions as the judge shall deem necessary to insure his appearance before the proper official in the State from which he is a fugitive, and shall otherwise order his return to the jurisdiction of that State in the custody of a proper official. "(3) Following waiver, a person not released pursuant to paragraph (2) of this subsection shall be ordered to return to the jurisdiction from which he is a fugitive in the custody of a proper official, and may be detained to await return. "(4) A person detained pursuant to paragraph (3) for more than three days (not including Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays) shall be returned to the court and shall thereupon be released pursuant to paragraph (2), unless the court shall find good reason to extend his detention for an additional three days to obtain the attendance of a proper official of the demanding jurisdiction, " (g) If a person has not waived further proceedings pursuant to subsection (f), and a requisition from the Governor of the jurisdiction from which the person is a fugitive is presented to the court, the court shall order the requisition to be filed and referred to the chief judge for extradition proceedings pursuant to section 23-704, and shall order the person committed pending those proceedings. "§ 23-703. Failure to appear "Any person released pursuant to section 23-702 who fails to appear as required shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $5,000 or imprisonment for not more than five years, or both. "§23-704. Extradition "(a) In all cases where the laws of the United States provide that fugitives from justice shall be delivered up, the chief judge of the Superior Court shall cause to be apprehended and delivered up fugitives from justice who shall be found within the District of Columbia, in the same manner and under the same regulations as the executive authority of a State is required to do by the provisions of chapter 209 82^stltf'in5^' "f *it]e 18, United States Code, and all executive and judicial officers 18 USC 3181- are required to obey the lawful precepts or other process issued for ^^^^" that purpose, and to aid and assist in that delivery. "(b) The chief judge of the Superior Court may also surrender, on demand of the Governor of any State, any person in the District of Columbia charged in that State in the manner provided in subsection (a) of this section with committing an act in the District of Columbia, or in another State, intentionally resulting in a crime in the State whose executive authority is making the demand, even though the accused was not in that State at the time of the commission of the crime, and has not fled therefrom. "(c) Xo person apprehended in accordance with the provisions of subsections (a) and (b) of this section shall be delivered over to the agent whom the executive authority demanding him shall have appointed to receive liim unless he shall first be taken before the chief

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