Tex. Gov't Code § 508.255 · Subchapter H. WARRANTS
STATUS AS FUGITIVE FROM JUSTICE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) After the issuance of a warrant, a person for whose return a warrant was issued is a fugitive from justice.
(b) The law relating to the right of the state to extradite a person and return a fugitive from justice and Article 42.11, Code of Criminal Procedure, relating to the waiver of all legal requirements to obtain extradition of a fugitive from justice from another state to this state, are not impaired by this chapter and remain in full force and effect.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 12.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.508.htm
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