2002 SESSION

01-2135

09/10

HOUSE BILL 1133

COMMITTEE: Criminal Justice and Public Safety

ANALYSIS

This bill eliminates the requirement that when a police officer pursues a person over a county line, the person be arraigned in the county where he or she is apprehended rather than in the county where the offense occurred.

This bill was requested by the police standards and training council.

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

01-2135

09/10

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Two

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

53:1 Intrastate Fresh Pursuit; Where Arraigned. RSA 614:8 is repealed and reenacted to read as follows:

614:8 Court Hearing. If an arrest pursuant to RSA 614:7 is made in obedience to a warrant, the disposition of the prisoner shall be as in other cases of arrest under a warrant; if the arrest is without a warrant, the prisoner shall without unnecessary delay be admitted to bail, if the offense is bailable, by a magistrate or bail commissioner of either the jurisdiction where the offense was committed or where the prisoner was apprehended, by taking security by way of recognizance of the appearance of such prisoner before the court having jurisdiction of such criminal offense.

53:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2003.

(Approved: April 26, 2002)

(Effective Date: January 1, 2003)