2012 Revised Code of Washington
Title 43 - STATE GOVERNMENT — EXECUTIVE
43.06 Governor.
43.06.350 Foreign nationals or citizens, convicted offenders -- Transfers and sentences.
RCW 43.06.350 Foreign nationals or citizens, convicted offenders — Transfers and sentences.
Whenever any convicted offender, who is a citizen or national of a foreign country and is under the jurisdiction of the department of corrections, requests transfer to the foreign country of which he or she is a citizen or national, under a treaty on the transfer of offenders entered into between the United States and a foreign country, the governor or the governor's designee:
(1) May grant the approval of the state to such transfer as provided in the treaty; and
(2) Shall have, notwithstanding any provision of chapter 9.95 or 72.68 RCW, the plenary authority to fix the duration of the offender's sentence, if not otherwise fixed, whenever a fixed sentence is a condition precedent to transfer.
[1983 c 255 § 9.]
Notes:
| Severability -- 1983 c 255: See RCW 72.74.900.
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