TITLE LV
PROCEEDINGS IN SPECIAL CASES

CHAPTER 534
HABEAS CORPUS

Penalties, etc.

Section 534:26

    534:26 Copy of Process. – If an officer having the custody of a prisoner, on payment or tender of his fees therefor, shall not, within 12 business hours after demand made, deliver to the prisoner a true copy of the warrant or process by which he is holden in custody he shall forfeit to the party aggrieved the sum of two hundred dollars.

Source. RS 202:25. CS 215:25. GS 224:26. GL 243:26. PS 239:26. PL 350:26. RL 406:26. 1997, 247:1, eff. Aug. 18, 1997.