Arizona Laws 13-4405.01. Issuance and execution of arrest warrants
A. Beginning on the effective date of this section, on the issuance of an arrest warrant, the court issuing the warrant shall state in the warrant whether the person named in the warrant is to be arrested for or is to be charged with committing a criminal offense as defined in section 13-4401 or is materially related to a criminal offense as defined in section 13-4401.
Terms Used In Arizona Laws 13-4405.01
- Arrest: means the actual custodial restraint of a person or the person's submission to custody. See Arizona Laws 13-4401
- Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
- Court: means all state, county and municipal courts in this state. See Arizona Laws 13-4401
- Criminal offense: means conduct that gives a peace officer or prosecutor probable cause to believe that a felony, a misdemeanor, a petty offense or a violation of a local criminal ordinance has occurred. See Arizona Laws 13-4401
- Custodial agency: means any law enforcement officer or agency, a sheriff or municipal jailer, the state department of corrections or a secure mental health facility that has custody of a person who is arrested or in custody for a criminal offense. See Arizona Laws 13-4401
- Person: means a human being and, as the context requires, an enterprise, a public or private corporation, an unincorporated association, a partnership, a firm, a society, a government, a governmental authority or an individual or entity capable of holding a legal or beneficial interest in property. See Arizona Laws 13-105
- Release: means no longer in the custody of a custodial agency and includes transfer from one custodial agency to another custodial agency. See Arizona Laws 13-4401
- Victim: means a person against whom the criminal offense has been committed, including a minor, or if the person is killed or incapacitated, the person's spouse, parent, child, grandparent or sibling, any other person related to the person by consanguinity or affinity to the second degree or any other lawful representative of the person, except if the person or the person's spouse, parent, child, grandparent, sibling, other person related to the person by consanguinity or affinity to the second degree or other lawful representative is in custody for an offense or is the accused. See Arizona Laws 13-4401
B. On receipt of notice of an arrest or an impending arrest of a suspect and if applicable pursuant to subsection A of this section, the agency that is responsible for holding the original warrant shall notify the law enforcement agency that was responsible for the original investigation of the offense of the impending incarceration of a suspect who is arrested on the law enforcement agency’s warrant.
C. On receiving notice that the warrant was executed pursuant to subsection B of this section, the law enforcement agency that was responsible for the original investigation of the offense shall do all of the following if the victim has requested notice pursuant to section 13-4405:
1. Notify the victim of the arrest and of the time, place and date for the initial appearance.
2. Inform the victim of the telephone number of the custodial agency in which the arrested person is held.
3. Provide the custodial agency with the victim information pursuant to section 13-4405 so that the custodial agency may notify the victim of the release of the suspect pursuant to section 13-4412, if applicable.
D. A law enforcement agency is not required to provide victim information pursuant to Section 13-4405, subsections C and E to the custodial agency at the time a suspect is taken into custody unless the law enforcement agency that performs that warrant arrest is also the law enforcement agency that was responsible for the original investigation of the offense.
E. The victim’s right to be informed of an arrest or a release after a suspect is arrested pursuant to a warrant applies to warrants that are issued on or after September 1, 1996.
F. Law enforcement, courts and custodial agencies are not liable pursuant to section 13-4437 for the failure to inform a victim of the arrest or release of a suspect on warrants that were issued before September 1, 1996.