Bill Text: AZ SB1068 | 2019 | Fifty-fourth Legislature 1st Regular | Engrossed


Bill Title: Detention officers; arrest warrant; custody

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-04-30 - House motion to reconsider third reading [SB1068 Detail]

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Senate Engrossed

 

 

 

 

State of Arizona

Senate

Fifty-fourth Legislature

First Regular Session

2019

 

 

 

SENATE BILL 1068

 

 

 

AN ACT

 

amending section 13‑3907, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to detention officers.

 

 

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

 


Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1.  Section 13-3907, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE13-3907.  Arrest with warrant; detention officer; definition

A.  A detention officer who is acting in the officer's official capacity at a jail facility at which the detention officer is employed and pursuant to a warrant may arrest a person who is any of the following:

1.  Already incarcerated in that a jail facility or who surrenders to that a jail facility at which the detention officer is employed.

2.  At a hospital facility to which the detention officer is assigned and is acting in the officer's official capacity, and the person to be arrested is under law enforcement supervision or custody while in the facility.

3.  At a superior, justice or municipal court facility to which the detention officer is assigned and is acting in the officer's official capacity.

4.  Within a jail facility as a visitor and the person is found to have an outstanding warrant.

B.  A detention officer who is acting in the officer's official capacity may take custody of a person whom a judicial officer remands into custody during a court proceeding.  

B.  C.  For the purposes of this section, "detention officer" means a person other than an elected official who is employed by a county, city or town and who is responsible for the supervision, protection, care, custody or control of inmates in a county or municipal correctional institution.  Detention officer does not include counselors or secretarial, clerical or professionally trained personnel. END_STATUTE

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