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     629.44 Allowing recognizance by offender in cases not 
  punishable by imprisonment in Minnesota Correctional 
  Facility-Stillwater. 

    A person arrested with a warrant for an offense not 
 punishable by imprisonment in the Minnesota Correctional 
 Facility-Stillwater, may ask to enter into a recognizance.  If 
 the person asks, the peace officer making the arrest shall take 
 the arrested person before a judge of the county in which the 
 arrest is made, for a recognizance without trial or hearing.  
 The judge may take from the arrested person a recognizance with 
 sufficient sureties for that person's appearance before the 
 court having jurisdiction of the offense in the county.  After 
 the recognizance is taken, the judge shall release the arrested 
 person.  The judge taking bail shall certify the release of the 
 arrested person on bail upon the warrant and deliver it, with 
 the recognizance, to the person making the arrest.  The person 
 making the arrest shall deliver it without unnecessary delay to 
 the court administrator before which the accused was recognized 
 to appear.  On application of the complainant, the judge who 
 issued the warrant or the county attorney shall summon any 
 witnesses the judge or county attorney considers necessary.  

    HIST: (10579) RL s 5238; 1961 c 561 s 14; 1979 c 102 s 13; 
 1983 c 359 s 136; 1985 c 265 art 10 s 1; 1Sp1986 c 3 art 1 s 82 

Copyright 2005 by the Office of Revisor of Statutes, State of Minnesota.