77-30-24 - Payment of expenses -- Extradition costs.
77-30-24. Payment of expenses -- Extradition costs.
(1) When the punishment of the crime is the confinement of the defendant in prison, theexpenses shall be paid out of the state treasury on the certificate of the governor and warrant ofthe auditor, and in all other cases they shall be paid out of the treasury of the county where thecrime is alleged to have been committed. The expenses shall be the fees paid to the officers ofthe state on whose governor the requisition is made.
(2) Any person who is returned to the state under this chapter, and who is convicted of, orpleads guilty or no contest to, the criminal charge or to a lesser criminal charge may, underSections 76-3-201, 77-27-5, and 77-27-6, be required to make restitution to the appropriategovernmental entities for the costs of his extradition.
Amended by Chapter 107, 1987 General Session