REFERENCE TITLE: detention officers; arrest warrant; custody

 

 

 

 

State of Arizona

Senate

Fifty-fourth Legislature

First Regular Session

2019

 

 

 

SB 1068

 

Introduced by

Senator Livingston

 

 

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 or a state, justice or municipal court facility.

3.  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