![]() “(b) ‘Sending State’ shall mean a State in which a prisoner is incarcerated at the time that he initiates a request for final disposition pursuant to article III hereof or at the time that a request for custody or availability is initiated pursuant to article IV hereof. “(a) ‘State’ shall mean a State of the United States the United States of America a territory or possession of the United States the District of Columbia the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. It is the further purpose of this agreement to provide such cooperative procedures. ![]() The party States also find that proceedings with reference to such charges and detainers, when emanating from another jurisdiction, cannot properly be had in the absence of cooperative procedures. Accordingly, it is the policy of the party States and the purpose of this agreement to encourage the expeditious and orderly disposition of such charges and determination of the proper status of any and all detainers based on untried indictments, informations, or complaints. “The party States find that charges outstanding against a prisoner, detainers based on untried indictments, informations, or complaints and difficulties in securing speedy trial of persons already incarcerated in other jurisdictions, produce uncertainties which obstruct programs of prisoner treatment and rehabilitation. “The contracting States solemnly agree that: “Article I The Interstate Agreement on Detainers is hereby enacted into law and entered into by the United States on its own behalf and on behalf of the District of Columbia with all jurisdictions legally joining in substantially the following form: Enactment into law of Interstate Agreement on Detainers This Act may be cited as the “Interstate Agreement on Detainers Act”. 99–308, set out as an Effective Date of 1986 Amendment note under section 921 of this title. ![]() Sections repealed effective 180 days after May 19, 1986, see section 110(a) of Pub. 237, related to persons exempt from the provisions of former sections 1201 to 1203 of this Appendix. ![]() 2185, provided penalties for receipt, possession, or transportation of firearms in commerce or affecting commerce by a convicted felon, dishonorably discharged veteran, mental incompetent, former citizen, illegal alien, or by any individual employed by such a person, and defined terms used in former sections 1201 to 1203 of this Appendix. 1236, related to Congressional findings and declaration of policy with respect to receipt, possession, or transportation of firearms by felons, veterans who are discharged under dishonorable conditions, mental incompetents, aliens who are illegally in this country, and former citizens who have renounced their citizenship. UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OR RECEIPT OF FIREARMS ![]()
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