5206 - Reports and receiving of prisoners.
§ 5206. Reports and receiving of prisoners. (a) Duty to receive prisoner.--No provost marshal, commander of a guard, warden, keeper, or officer of a municipal, county, or State place of confinement may refuse to receive or keep any prisoner subject to this part, committed to his charge, when the committing person furnishes a statement, signed by him of the offense charged against the prisoner. (b) Report of commitment.--Every commander of a guard, warden, keeper, or officer of a municipal, county, or State place of confinement to whose charge a prisoner subject to this part, is committed shall, within 24 hours after that commitment report to the commanding officer of the prisoner, the name of the prisoner, the offense charged against him, and the name of the person who ordered or authorized the commitment.