J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor                        869

application of the Interstate Agreement on Detainers, is delivered
into temporary custody of a party state as provided in Section 616F
of this Article (Article V of the Interstate Agreement on Detainers)
and subsequently escapes or attempts to escape from such temporary
custody, such escape or attempt to escape shall be punishable under
the laws of this State as if he had escaped or attempted to escape
from a correctional institution or facility in this State.

616N.

It shall be lawful and mandatory upon the warden, superintendent
or other official in charge of a correctional institution in this State to
give over the person of any inmate thereof whenever so required by
the operation of the Interstate Agreement on Detainers.

616-O.

The Attorney General is designated as the officer to carry out the
provisions of Section 616H of this Article (Article VII of the Inter-
state Agreement on Detainers) and to promulgate rules and regula-
tions as stipulated therein.

616P.

"Defective Delinquents" as defined in Article BIB of this Code are
specifically excluded from the provisions of the Interstate Agree-
ment on Detainers.

616Q.

As to any request by a person imprisoned in another party state
for trial in this State, written notice shall not be deemed to have
been caused to be delivered to the prosecuting officer and the ap-
propriate court of this State in accordance with Section 616D(a),
(Article HI of the Interstate Agreement on Detainers), nor shall
notification be deemed to have been given in accordance with Sections
616D(d) or 616E(b), (Articles III and IV of the Interstate Agree-
ment on Detainers), until such notice or notification is actually re-
ceived by the appropriate court and by the appropriate State's
Attorney of this State, his deputy, an assistant, or any other person
empowered to receive mail on behalf of the State's Attorney.

616R.

A person delivered to the custody of another party state pursuant
to this sub-title shall be allowed or shall forfeit such diminution of
the period of his confinement pursuant to Section 700 of this Article
as may be determined by the Commissioner of Correction in each
case.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That copies of this Act shall,
upon its approval, be transmitted to the governor of each state, the
attorney general and the administrator of general services of the
United States, and the Council of State Governments.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1965.

Approved May 4, 1965.