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Section 941.15, Florida Statutes 2003

941.15  Commitment to await requisition; bail.--If from the examination before the judge or magistrate it appears that the person held is the person charged with having committed the crime alleged and, except in cases arising under s. 941.06, that the person has fled from justice, the judge or magistrate must, by a warrant reciting the accusation, commit the person to the county jail for such a time not exceeding 30 days and specified in the warrant, as will enable the arrest of the accused to be made under a warrant of the Governor on a requisition of the executive authority of the state having jurisdiction of the offense, unless the accused give bail as provided in the next section, or until the accused shall be legally discharged.

History.--s. 15, ch. 20460, 1941; s. 7, ch. 22858, 1945; s. 1606, ch. 97-102.