Terms Used In Michigan Laws 11.12

  • Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories belonging to the United States; and the words "United States" shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o
   When, upon demand of the governor of any other state or territory, the governor of this state shall issue a warrant or order to the sheriff of any county to arrest and deliver any person charged with crime in such other state or territory, to the agent appointed by the executive authority making such demand, as provided by law, there shall be paid to the secretary of state, prior to the making and delivery of such warrant or order, by the agent or person to whom the same is to be delivered, as a fee for making the same, a sum equal to the amount required to be paid in such other state or territory for a like warrant made on demand of the executive authority of this state for the arrest and delivery of any person in such state or territory to the authorized agent of this state: Provided, That in case no such fee be charged in such other state or territory then no fee shall be required from the agent of such state or territory as aforesaid. The certified statement of the secretary of state or other proper officer of such other state or territory as to the amount of the fee so charged in such state or territory shall be evidence thereof.