Search warrants - issuance - grounds.

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(1) A search warrant authorized by this section may be issued by any judge of a court of record or by a juvenile magistrate.

(2) A search warrant may be issued under this section to search for and seize any property:

  1. That is stolen or embezzled; or

  2. That is designed or intended for use as a means of committing a delinquent act; or

  3. That is or has been used as a means of committing a delinquent act; or

  4. The possession of which is illegal; or

  5. That would be material evidence in a subsequent criminal prosecution or delinquencyadjudication in this state or in another state; or

  6. The seizure of which is expressly required, authorized, or permitted by any statute ofthis state; or

  7. That is kept, stored, maintained, transported, sold, dispensed, or possessed in violation of a statute of this state, under circumstances involving a serious threat to public safety or order or to public health.

Source: L. 96: Entire article amended with relocations, p. 1628, § 1, effective January 1, 1997.

Editor's note: (1) This section was formerly numbered as 19-2-206. Prior to relocation in 1996, the said section 19-2-206 was contained in a title that was repealed and reenacted in 1987. Provisions of that section, as it existed in 1987, are similar to those contained in 19-2-105 as said section existed in 1986, the year prior to the repeal and reenactment of this title.

(2) The former section 19-2-504 was relocated to section 19-2-804 when this article was amended with relocations in 1996.


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