Any person who willfully fails to appear in court as specified by the citation shall be guilty of a simple misdemeanor. Where a defendant fails to make a required court appearance, the court shall issue an arrest warrant for the offense of failure to appear, and shall forward the warrant and the original or electronically produced citation to the clerk. The clerk shall enter a transfer to the issuing agency on the docket, and shall return the warrant with the original citation attached to the law enforcement agency which issued the original or electronically produced citation for enforcement of the warrant. Upon arrest of the defendant, the warrant and the original or electronically produced citation shall be returned to the court, and the offenses shall be heard and disposed of simultaneously.
[C73, 75, 77, § 753.9; C79, 81, § 805.5]
95 Acts, ch 118, §35
Referred to in § 364.17, 602.8102(126)
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