Section 23-24A-12 - State's request for temporary custody and availability--Approval by court ofrequesting state--Time for action by Governor of sending state--Notice to prisoner.
23-24A-12. State's request for temporary custody and availability--Approval by court of requesting state--Time for action by Governor of sending state--Notice to prisoner. The appropriate officer of the jurisdiction in which an untried indictment, information, or complaint is pending shall be entitled to have a prisoner against whom he has lodged a detainer and who is serving a term of imprisonment in any party state made available in accordance with § 23-24A-17 upon presentation of a written request for temporary custody or availability to the appropriate authorities of the state in which the prisoner is incarcerated: provided that the court having jurisdiction of such indictment, information, or complaint shall have duly approved, recorded, and transmitted the request: and provided further that there shall be a period of thirty days after receipt by the appropriate authorities before the request be honored, within which period the Governor of the sending state may disapprove the request for temporary custody or availability, either upon his own motion or upon motion of the prisoner; and, the prisoner shall receive immediate notice of a request and shall be informed of his right to petition the Governor of the sending state to disapprove the request.
Source: SL 1972, ch 150, § 10.