{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-57-57-347","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 57, § 57-347","heading":"Out-of-state parolee supervision - Compacts with other","body":"states.\n\nThe Governor of this state is hereby authorized and directed to\n\nexecute a compact on behalf of the State of Oklahoma with any of the\n\nUnited States legally joining therein in the form substantially as\n\nfollows:\n\nA compact entered into by and among the contracting states,\n\nsignatories hereto, with the consent of the Congress of the United\n\nStates of America, granted by an act entitled \"An act granting the\n\nconsent of Congress to any two or more states to enter into\n\nagreements or compacts for cooperative effort and mutual assistance\n\nin the prevention of crime and for other purposes.\"\n\nThe contracting states solemnly agree:\n\n(1) That it shall be competent for the duly constituted judicial\n\nand administrative authorities of a state party to this compact\n\n(herein called \"sending state\"), to permit any person convicted of\n\nan offense within such state and placed on probation or released on\n\nparole to reside in any other state party to this compact (herein\n\ncalled \"receiving state\"), while on probation or parole, if\n\n(a) Such person is in fact a resident of or has his family\n\nresiding with the receiving state and can obtain employment there;\n\n(b) Though not a resident of the receiving state and not having\n\nhis family residing there, the receiving state consents to such\n\nperson being sent there.\n\nBefore granting such permission, opportunity shall be granted to\n\nthe receiving state to investigate the home and prospective\n\nemployment of such person.\n\nA resident of the receiving state, within the meaning of this\n\nsection, is one who has been an actual inhabitant of such state\n\ncontinuously for more than one (1) year prior to his coming to the\n\nsending state and has not resided within the sending state more than\n\nsix (6) continuous months immediately preceding the commission of\n\nthe offense for which he has been convicted.\n\n(2) That each receiving state will assume the duties of\n\nvisitation of and supervision over probationers or parolees of any\n\nsending state and in the exercise of those duties will be governed\n\nby the same standards that prevail for their own probationers and\n\nparolees.\n\n(3) That duly accredited officers of a sending state may at all\n\ntimes enter a receiving state and there apprehend and retake any\n\nperson on probation or parole. For that purpose no formalities will\n\nbe required other than establishing the authority of the officer and\n\nthe identity of the person to be retaken. Any legal requirements to\n\nobtain extradition of fugitives from justice are hereby expressly\n\nwaived on the part of states party hereto, as to such persons. The\n\ndecision of the sending state to retake a person on probation or\n\nparole shall be conclusive upon and not reviewable within the\n\nreceiving state: Provided, however, that if at the time when a state\n\nseeks to retake a probationer or parolee there should be pending\n\nagainst him within the receiving state any criminal charge, or he\n\nshould be suspected of having committed within such state a criminal\n\noffense, he shall not be retaken without the consent of the\n\nreceiving state until discharged from prosecution or from\n\nimprisonment for such offense.\n\n(4) That the duly accredited officers of the sending state will\n\nbe permitted to transport prisoners being retaken through any and\n\nall states parties to this compact, without interference.\n\n(5) That the Governor of each state may designate an officer\n\nwho, acting jointly with like officers of other contracting states,\n\nif and when appointed, shall promulgate such rules and regulations\n\nas may be deemed necessary to more effectively carry out the terms\n\nof this compact.\ntes parties to this compact, without interference.\n\n(5) That the Governor of each state may designate an officer\n\nwho, acting jointly with like officers of other contracting states,\n\nif and when appointed, shall promulgate such rules and regulations\n\nas may be deemed necessary to more effectively carry out the terms\n\nof this compact.\n\n(6) That this compact shall become operative immediately upon\n\nits execution by any state as between it and any other state or\n\nstates so executing. When executed it shall have the full force and\n\neffect of law within such state, the form of execution to be in\n\naccordance with the laws of the executing state.\n\n(7) That this compact shall continue in force and remain binding\n\nupon each executing state until renounced by it. The duties and\n\nobligations hereunder of a renouncing state shall continue as to\n\nparolees or probationers residing therein at the time of withdrawal\n\nuntil retaken or finally discharged by the sending state.\n\nRenunciation of this compact shall be by the same authority which\n\nexecuted it, by sending six (6) months' notice in writing of its\n\nintention to withdraw from the compact to the other state party\n\nhereto.","path":["OK Code","Title 57"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os57.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"cd5bcc3276c1eba949cd1a9c68e878929cdb0623eba78f377b744b15dffa4ee5","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-57-57-332.8","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-57-57-348"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}