Title 18a
§ 4. Definition of term “appropriate court”
Statutory text
The term “appropriate court” as used in the agreement on detainers shall mean with respect to the United States, the courts of the United States, and with respect to the District of Columbia, the courts of the District of Columbia, in which indictments, informations, or complaints, for which disposition is sought, are pending.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Interstate Agreement on Detainers Act
Pub. L. 91–538 § 4 · 84 Stat. 1397
Enacted · -us-usc-t18a-pl-91-538-s4
(Pub. L. 91–538, § 4, Dec. 9, 1970, 84 Stat. 1402.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 91–538, § 4, Dec. 9, 1970, 84 Stat. 1402.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 4. The term “appropriate court” as used in the agreement on detainers shall mean with respect to the United States, the courts of the United States, and with respect to the District of Columbia, the courts of the District of Columbia, in which indictments, informations, or complaints, for which disposition is sought, are pending.
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