Section 1557 Of Chapter 4. Proceedings Against Fugitives From Justice From California Penal Code >> Title 12. >> Part 2. >> Chapter 4.
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. (a) This section shall apply when this state or a city,
county, or city and county employs a person to travel to a foreign
jurisdiction outside this state for the express purpose of returning
a fugitive from justice to this state when the Governor of this
state, in the exercise of the authority conferred by Section 2 of
Article IV of the United States Constitution, or by the laws of this
state, has demanded the surrender of the fugitive from the executive
authority of any state of the United States, or of any foreign
government.
(b) Upon the approval of the Governor, the State Controller shall
audit and pay out of the State Treasury as provided in subdivision
(c) or (d) the accounts of the person employed to bring back the
fugitive, including any money paid by that person for all of the
following:
(1) Money paid to the authorities of a sister state for statutory
fees in connection with the detention and surrender of the fugitive.
(2) Money paid to the authorities of the sister state for the
subsistence of the fugitive while detained by the sister state
without payment of which the authorities of the sister state refuse
to surrender the fugitive.
(3) Where it is necessary to present witnesses or evidence in the
sister state, without which the sister state would not surrender the
fugitive, the cost of producing the witnesses or evidence in the
sister state.
(4) Where the appearance of witnesses has been authorized in
advance by the Governor, who may authorize the appearance in unusual
cases where the interests of justice would be served, the cost of
producing witnesses to appear in the sister state on behalf of the
fugitive in opposition to his or her extradition.
(c) No amount shall be paid out of the State Treasury to a city,
county, or city and county except as follows:
(1) When a warrant has been issued by any magistrate after the
filing of a complaint or the finding of an indictment and its
presentation to the court and filing by the clerk, and the person
named therein as defendant is a fugitive from justice who has been
found and arrested in any state of the United States or in any
foreign government, the county auditor shall draw his or her warrant
and the county treasurer shall pay to the person designated to return
the fugitive, the amount of expenses estimated by the district
attorney to be incurred in the return of the fugitive.
(2) If the person designated to return the fugitive is a city
officer, the city officer authorized to draw warrants on the city
treasury shall draw his or her warrant and the city treasurer shall
pay to that person the amount of expenses estimated by the district
attorney to be incurred in the return of the fugitive.
(3) The person designated to return the fugitive shall make no
disbursements from any funds advanced without a receipt being
obtained therefor showing the amount, the purpose for which the sum
is expended, the place, the date, and to whom paid.
(4) A receipt obtained pursuant to paragraph (3) shall be filed by
the person designated to return the fugitive with the county auditor
or appropriate city officer or State Controller, as the case may be,
together with an affidavit by the person that the expenditures
represented by the receipts were necessarily made in the performance
of duty, and when the advance has been made by the county or city
treasurer to the person designated to return the fugitive, and has
thereafter been audited by the State Controller, the payment thereof
shall be made by the State Treasurer to the county or city treasury
that has advanced the funds.
(5) In every case where the expenses of the person employed to
bring back the fugitive as provided in this section, are less than
the amount advanced on the recommendation of the district attorney,
the person employed to bring back the fugitive shall return to the
county or city treasurer, as appropriate, the difference in amount
between the aggregate amount of receipts so filed by him or her, as
herein employed, and the amount advanced to the person upon the
recommendation of the district attorney.
(6) When no advance has been made to the person designated to
return the fugitive, the sums expended by him or her, when audited by
the State Controller, shall be paid by the State Treasurer to the
person so designated.
(7) Any payments made out of the State Treasury pursuant to this
section shall be made from appropriations for the fiscal year in
which those payments are made.
(d) Payments to state agencies will be made in accord with the
rules of the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims
Board. No city, county, or other jurisdiction may file, and the state
may not reimburse, a claim pursuant to this section that is
presented to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation or to
any other agency or department of the state more than six months
after the close of the month in which the costs were incurred.