Vermont Statutes Title 18 Sec. 9102
Terms Used In Vermont Statutes Title 18 Sec. 9102
- fled: as used in this chapter shall be construed to mean any voluntary or involuntary departure from the jurisdiction of the court where the proceedings hereinafter mentioned may have been instituted and are still pending, with the effect of avoiding, impeding, or delaying the action of the court in which such proceedings may have been instituted or be pending, or any such departure from the state where the person demanded then was, if he or she then were under detention by law as a person of unsound mind and subject to detention. See
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Person: means any individual, company, corporation, association, partnership, the U. See
- Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States may apply to the District of Columbia and any territory and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. See
§ 9102. Who may be extradited
A person alleged to be of unsound mind found in this State, who has fled from another state, shall, on demand of the executive authority of the state from which he or she fled, be delivered up to be removed thereto, if at the time of his or her flight:
(1) He or she was under detention by law in a hospital, asylum, or other institution for the insane as a person of unsound mind; or
(2) He or she had been theretofore determined by legal proceedings to be of unsound mind, the finding being unreversed and in full force and effect, and the control of his or her person having been acquired by a court of competent jurisdiction of the state from which he or she fled; or
(3) He or she was subject to detention in such state, being then his or her legal domicile (personal service of process having been made) based on legal proceedings there pending to have him or her declared of unsound mind. (Added 1967, No. 305 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 1968.)