(a) When any person is arrested on a bench warrant of arrest issued by order of the Superior Court or, when said court is not in session, by a judge thereof, in which the court or judge issuing the warrant indicated that bail should be denied or ordered that the person to be arrested should be brought before a clerk or assistant clerk of the Superior Court, the officer or indifferent person making the arrest shall without undue delay bring the arrested person before the clerk or assistant clerk of the superior court for the geographical area where the offense is alleged to have been committed during the office hours of the clerk and if the clerk's office is not open, the officer or indifferent person shall, without undue delay, bring the arrested person to a community correctional center within the geographical area where the offense is alleged to have been committed or, if there is no such correctional center within such geographical area, to the nearest community correctional center, or the York Correctional Institution, as the case may be. The clerk or assistant clerk or a person designated by the Commissioner of Correction shall thereupon advise the arrested person of his rights under section 54-1b, and, when the court or judge has not indicated that bail should be denied, shall order the arrested person to enter into the condition of release pursuant to the condition fixed by the judge or court conditioned that the arrested person shall appear before the superior court having criminal jurisdiction in and for the geographical area to answer to the bench warrant of arrest and information filed in the case. Upon the failure of the arrested person to enter into the condition of release fixed by the court or judge or if the person has been arrested for an offense which is not bailable, the clerk or assistant clerk or the person designated by the Commissioner of Correction shall issue a mittimus committing the arrested person to a community correctional center, or the York Correctional Institution, as the case may be, until he is discharged by due course of law.
(b) When any person is arrested on a bench warrant of arrest issued by order of the Superior Court or by a judge thereof, in which the court or judge has not indicated that bail should be denied or has not ordered that the officer or indifferent person making such arrest shall without undue delay bring such person before the clerk or assistant clerk of the superior court for the geographical area, the officer or indifferent person making the arrest shall without undue delay, comply with the provisions of sections 54-63c and 54-63d in setting the conditions of release for the person or persons arrested under the warrant.
(c) The clerk or assistant clerk and the person designated by the Commissioner of Correction may take a written promise to appear on a bond without or with surety from an arrested person in accordance with the conditions of release fixed by the court or judge and may administer such oaths as are necessary in the taking of promises or bonds.
(P.A. 80-313, S. 13; P.A. 85-309; P.A. 15-14, S. 36.)
History: P.A. 85-309 amended Subsec. (a) to authorize commitment of person under arrest to Connecticut Correctional Institution, Niantic; P.A. 15-14 made technical changes in Subsec. (a).
Cited. 187 C. 6; 195 C. 505; 201 C. 115; 236 C. 388.
Structure Connecticut General Statutes
Chapter 960 - Information, Procedure and Bail
Section 54-45. - When grand jury is required. Selecting grand jury. Alternate grand jurors.
Section 54-45a. - Record of grand jury proceedings. Transcripts.
Section 54-46. - Prosecution on complaint or information.
Section 54-47. - Investigations into commission of crime.
Section 54-47a. - Compelling testimony of witness. Immunity from prosecution.
Section 54-47b. - Investigatory grand jury. Definitions.
Section 54-47c. - Application for investigation into commission of crime.
Section 54-47d. - Appointment of investigatory grand jury. Duration and scope of investigation.
Section 54-47e. - Sealing of order and application. Summary of scope of investigation. Disclosure.
Section 54-47f. - Conduct of investigation. Testimony of witnesses.
Section 54-47g. - Finding and record of investigation. Disclosure. Hearing. Access to testimony.
Section 54-47i. - Authority of investigation ordered prior to October 1, 1985.
Section 54-48. - Reward for arrest of capital offender or felon.
Section 54-50. - Reward for information as to unlawful disinterment of corpse.
Section 54-51. - Reward for information as to theft of motor vehicle, livestock or poultry.
Section 54-52. - Determination of claims to reward.
Section 54-53. - Release by correctional officials.
Section 54-53a. - Detention of persons who have not made bail.
Section 54-56. - Dismissal of information by court.
Section 54-56a. (Formerly Sec. 54-2b). - Pleading by mail in certain motor vehicle cases.
Section 54-56b. - Right to dismissal or trial on nolle.
Section 54-56c. - Request for privileged trial status.
Section 54-56d. (Formerly Sec. 54-40). - Competency to stand trial.
Section 54-56e. (Formerly Sec. 54-76p). - Accelerated pretrial rehabilitation.
Section 54-56f. (Formerly Sec. 54-5). - Requirements of sureties of the peace.
Section 54-56g. - Pretrial alcohol education program.
Section 54-56i. - Pretrial drug education and community service program.
Section 54-56j. - Pretrial school violence prevention program.
Section 54-56k. - *(See end of section for amended version and effective date.) Pretrial account.
Section 54-56m. - Mediation programs.
Section 54-56o. - Nolle prosequi in certain family violence cases.
Section 54-57. - Joinder of offenses of the same character.
Section 54-58. - Description of money in complaint or information.
Section 54-60. - Allegations in criminal cases.
Section 54-61. - Complaints for offenses specified in special acts, ordinances and bylaws.
Section 54-62. - Allegation of previous conviction.
Section 54-63. - Mode of informing against larceny by embezzlement.
Section 54-63a. - Definitions.
Section 54-63e. - Bond or promise conditioned on appearance.
Section 54-63f. - Release after conviction and pending sentence or appeal.
Section 54-63g. - Appeal from court order re release.
Section 54-64. - Police officials and clerks of court to take promise to appear or bond.
Section 54-64a. - Release by judicial authority.
Section 54-64b. - Release following arrest on court warrant.
Section 54-64c. - Notice of appearance after release.
Section 54-64d. - Release of person taken into custody on a capias.
Section 54-64g. - Surveillance of serious felony offenders released on bond.
Section 54-65b. - Verification of rearrest warrant or capias upon request.
Section 54-65c. - Vacating forfeiture of bond.
Section 54-67. - When attorneys not allowed to give bonds.
Section 54-68. - Persons charged with gaming to give bonds.
Section 54-69. - Motion of parties to modify conditions of release.
Section 54-69b. - Authority of court to modify conditions of release.
Section 54-70. - Compromise of forfeited bonds.
Section 54-71. - Mistake in form of recognizance.
Section 54-71a. - No civil liability for release.
Section 54-72. - Fines and forfeitures; prosecutions; liability of corporation.
Section 54-73. - Collection and disposition of forfeitures.
Section 54-74. - Remission of fine.