§15-22-31. Warrant for retaking parolee; arrest without warrant; execution of warrant and fees therefor.

(a) If the parole officer having charge of a paroled prisoner or any member of the Board of Pardons and Paroles shall have reasonable cause to believe that such prisoner has lapsed, or is probably about to lapse, into criminal ways or company or has violated the conditions of his parole in an important respect, such officer or board member shall report such fact to the Department of Corrections, which shall thereupon issue a warrant for the retaking of such prisoner and his return to the prison designated.

(b) Any parole officer, police officer, sheriff or other officer with power of arrest, upon the request of the parole officer, may arrest a parolee without a warrant; but, in case of an arrest without a warrant, the arresting officer shall have a written statement by said parole officer setting forth that the parolee has, in his judgment, violated the conditions of parole, in which case such statement shall be sufficient warrant for the detention of said parolee in the county jail or other appropriate place of detention until the warrant issued by the Department of Corrections has been received at the place of his detention; provided, however, that in no case shall a parolee be held longer than 20 days on the order of the parole officer awaiting the arrival of the warrant as provided for in this section.

(c) Any parole officer, any officer authorized to serve criminal process or any peace officer to whom such warrant shall be delivered is authorized and required to execute such warrant by taking such prisoner and returning him to the prison designated by the Department of Corrections, there to be held to await the action of the Board of Pardons and Paroles.

(d) Such officer, other than an officer of the prison or parole officer, shall be entitled to receive the same fees therefor as upon the execution of a warrant of arrest at the place where said prisoner shall be retaken and as for transporting a convict from the place of arrest to the prison, in case such officer also transports the prisoner to the prison. Such fees shall be paid out of the funds standing to the credit of the Department of Corrections.

(Acts 1939, No. 275, p. 426; Code 1940, T. 42, §10; Acts 1951, No. 599, p. 1030; Acts 1953, No. 734, p. 993; Acts 1989, No. 89-945, p. 1858, §1.)