House Engrossed Senate Bill

issuance; affidavit; arrest warrant

(now: arrest warrant; issuance; affidavit)

State of Arizona

Senate

Fifty-seventh Legislature

First Regular Session

2025

CHAPTER 227

SENATE BILL 1232

AN ACT

amending section 13-3897, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to warrants for arrest.

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

Section 1. Section 13-3897, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE13-3897. Obtaining arrest warrant; duty of officer after arrest

A. If a magistrate is satisfied by an affidavit sworn to or affirmed before the magistrate that probable cause exists that a felony offense has been committed and that a particular person committed the felony offense, the court shall issue a warrant commanding any peace officer to arrest the person named in the affidavit.

B. When the arrest by virtue of a warrant occurs in the county where the alleged offense was committed and where the warrant was issued, the officer making the arrest shall without unnecessary delay take the person arrested before the magistrate who issued the warrant or, if that magistrate is absent or unable to act, before the nearest or most accessible magistrate in the same county in which the arrest occurs or, if the offense that the person is being arrested for was committed in another county, before either the nearest or most accessible magistrate in the county in which the arrest occurs or a magistrate in the county where the alleged offense was committed. END_STATUTE

APPROVED BY THE GOVERNOR JUNE 27, 2025.

FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE JUNE 27, 2025.