REFERENCE TITLE: issuance; affidavit; arrest warrant

State of Arizona

Senate

Fifty-seventh Legislature

First Regular Session

2025

SB 1232

Introduced by

Senator Payne

AN ACT

amending title 13, chapter 38, article 7, arizona revised statutes, by adding section 13-3904; relating to arrest warrants.

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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1. Title 13, chapter 38, article 7, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 13-3904, to read:

START_STATUTE13-3904. Arrest warrant; grounds; form of warrant; definition

a. a magistrate shall issue an arrest warrant after reviewing an affidavit that is SWORN to or affirmed by a peace officer before the magistrate and that contains facts sufficient to establish probable cause that a specific felony offense has been COMMITTED and that a particular person committed that felony offense.

b. the arrest warrant for the felony offense shall be in a form SUBSTANTIALLY similar to a form that is adopted by the arizona supreme court.

c. for the purposes of this section, "arrest warrant" means a written order that is issued in the name of this state, that is signed by a MAGISTRATE, that is directed to a peace officer and that commands a peace officer to arrest the person named in the warrant and take that person BEFORE a MAGISTRATE as PRESCRIBED by rules adopted by the SUPREME court. END_STATUTE