Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 51.01 · Chapter 51. FUGITIVES FROM JUSTICE
DELIVERED UP.
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Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
A person in any other State of the United States charged with treason or any felony who shall flee from justice and be found in this State, shall on demand of the executive authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having jurisdiction of the crime.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1965, 59th Leg., vol. 2, p. 317, ch. 722.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/CR/htm/CR.51.htm
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- sha256 a32a4d60505807aaba99878c398a6e7fa82201185902b54f8b10f701934bd997
- Composed by
- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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