Colorado Code § 24-60-401

Authority to enter into compacts
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(1) Pursuant to the consent of the
congress of the United States heretofore granted by Section 112, Title 4, United States Code,
being Section 129, Public Law 72, 81st Congress, First Session of 1949, entitled "Compacts
between States for Cooperation in Prevention of Crime", and wherein the consent of congress is
given "to any two or more states to enter into agreements or compacts for cooperative effort and
mutual assistance in the prevention of crime and in the enforcement of their respective criminal
laws and policies and to establish such agencies, joint or otherwise, as they may deem desirable
for making effective such agreements and compacts", the governor of the state of Colorado is
authorized to:
(a) Enter into an agreement with one or more other states for the safekeeping, care, and
subsistence of persons convicted of a felony in such other compacting states, in a penal
institution of the state of Colorado; and
(b) Enter into an agreement with one or more other states for the safekeeping, care, and
subsistence of persons convicted of a felony in the state of Colorado, in a penal institution of
such other compacting states.

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