Ch. 290                                    LAWS OF MARYLAND

custody or supervision, there is pending in the state wherein he
is detained 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 delinquent juvenile being returned, shall
be permitted to transport such delinquent juvenile through any
and all states party to this compact, without interference.
Upon his return to the state from which he escaped or absconded,
the delinquent 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 delinquent juvenile is
returned under this Article shall be responsible for the payment
of the transportation costs of such return.

Article VI--Voluntary Return Procedure

That any delinquent juvenile who has absconded while on
probation or parole, or escaped from an institution or agency
vested with his legal custody or supervision in any state party
to this compact, and any juvenile who has run away from any state
party to this compact, who is taken into custody without a
requisition in another state party to this compact under the
provisions of Article IV (a) or of Article V (a), may consent to
his immediate return to the state from which he absconded,
escaped or ran away. Such consent shall be given by the juvenile
or delinquent juvenile and his counsel or guardian ad litem if
any, by executing or subscribing a writing, in the presence of a
judge of the appropriate court, which states that the juvenile or
delinquent juvenile and his counsel or guardian ad litem, if any,
consent to his return to the. demanding state. Before such
consent shall be executed or subscribed, however, the judge, in
the presence of counsel or guardian ad litem, if any, shall
inform the juvenile or delinquent juvenile of his rights under
this compact. When the consent has been duly executed, it shall
be forwarded to and filed with the compact administrator of the
state in which the court is located and the judge shall direct
the officer having the juvenile or delinquent juvenile in custody
to deliver him to the duly accredited officer or officers of the
state demanding his return, and shall cause to be delivered to
such officer or officers a copy of the consent. The court may,
however, upon the request of the state to which the juvenile or
delinquent juvenile is being returned, order him to return
unaccompanied to such state and shall provide him with a copy of
such court order; in such event a copy of the consent shall be
forwarded to the compact administrator of the state to which said
juvenile or delinquent juvenile is ordered to return.

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