Ch. 290                   LAWS OF MARYLAND

inform him of the demand made for his return and who may appoint
counsel or guardian ad litem for him. If the judge of such
court shall find that the requisition is in order, he shall
deliver such juvenile over to the officer whom the court
demanding him shall have appointed to receive him. The judge,
however, may fix a reasonable time to be allowed for the purpose
of testing the legality of the proceeding.

Upon reasonable information that a person is a juvenile who
has run away from another state party to this compact without the
consent of a parent, guardian, person or agency entitled to his
legal custody, such juvenile may be taken into custody without a
requisition and brought forthwith before a judge of the
appropriate court who may appoint counsel or guardian ad litem
for such juvenile and who shall determine after a hearing whether
sufficient cause exists to hold the person, subject to the order
of the court, for his own protection and welfare, for such a time
not exceeding 90 days as will enable his return to another state
party to this compact pursuant to a requisition for his return
from a court of that state. If, at the time when a state seeks
the return of a juvenile who has run away, there is pending in
the state wherein he is found any criminal charge, or any
proceeding to have him adjudicated a delinquent juvenile for an
act committed in such state, or if he is suspected of having
committed within such state a criminal offense or an act of
juvenile delinquency, he shall not be returned without the
consent of such state until discharged from prosecution or other
form of proceeding, imprisonment, detention or supervision for
such offense or juvenile delinquency. The duly accredited
officers of any state party to this compact, upon the
establishment of their authority and the identity of the juvenile,
being returned, shall be permitted to transport such juvenile
through any and all states party to this compact, without
interference. Upon his return to the state from which he fan
away, the juvenile shall be subject to such further proceedings
as may be appropriate under the laws of that state.

(b)  That the state to which a juvenile is returned under
this Article shall be responsible for payment of the
transportation costs of such return.

(c)  That "juvenile" as     used in this Article means any
person who is a minor under   the law of the state of residence of
the parent, guardian, person   or agency entitled to the legal
custody of such minor.

Article V—-Return of Escapees and Absconders

(a) That the appropriate person or authority from whose
probation or parole supervision a delinquent juvenile has
absconded or from whose institutional custody he has escaped
shall present to the appropriate court or to the executive
authority of the state where the delinquent juvenile is alleged

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