Sec. 1. 15 MRSA §210, first ¶, as amended by PL 1997, c. 181, §1, is further amended to read:

A person arrested upon a Governor's warrant may not be delivered over to the agent whom the executive authority demanding the person has appointed to receive the person, unless the person is first taken before a judge of a court of record in this State, who shall inform the person of the demand made for the person's surrender and of the crime with which the person is charged and that the person has the right to demand and procure legal counsel. The judge shall inform the person arrested upon the Governor's warrant of the person's right to waive extradition in accordance with section 226. If the prisoner or the prisoner's counsel states that the prisoner may or will contest extradition, the judge shall fix a reasonable time, not to exceed 7 days, to allow the person to file a petition contesting extradition. The petition must be filed in District Court and state the grounds upon which extradition is contested. When the petition is filed, notice of it and of the court shall promptly set a time and place of for the hearing and notice must be given to the prosecuting attorney of for the county in which the arrest is made and in which the accused is in custody, to the Attorney General and to the agent of the demanding state.

Sec. 2. 15 MRSA §213, sub-§2, as enacted by PL 1977, c. 671, §12, is amended to read:

2. Apprehension by warrant. A warrant issued by a judge or magistrate pursuant to subsection 1 shall must command the law enforcement officer to whom it is directed to apprehend the person named therein in the warrant, wherever he may be found in this State, and, in accordance with the Maine Rules of Criminal Procedure, Rule 5, to bring him the person before the same or any other a judge or magistrate who may be available in or convenient of access to the place where the arrest may be is made, to answer the charge on the complaint and affidavit.

Sec. 3. 15 MRSA §214 is amended to read:

§214. Arrest without warrant; hearing

The arrest of a person may be lawfully made by an officer or a private citizen without a warrant, upon reasonable information that the accused person stands charged in the courts of another state with a crime punishable by death or imprisonment for a term exceeding one year; but when so arrested, the accused person must be taken before a judge or magistrate with all practicable speed in accordance with the Maine Rules of Criminal Procedure, Rule 5,