---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 U.S.C. § 3605"
title: "18"
title_heading: "Crimes and Criminal Procedure"
number: "3605"
heading: "Transfer of jurisdiction over a probationer"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/3605"
units:
  - "Part II — Criminal Procedure"
  - "Chapter 229 — Postsentence Administration"
  - "Subchapter A — Probation"
---

# §3605. Transfer of jurisdiction over a probationer


A court, after imposing a sentence, may transfer jurisdiction over a probationer or person on supervised release to the district court for any other district to which the person is required to proceed as a condition of his probation or release, or is permitted to proceed, with the concurrence of such court. A later transfer of jurisdiction may be made in the same manner. A court to which jurisdiction is transferred under this section is authorized to exercise all powers over the probationer or releasee that are permitted by this subchapter or subchapter B or D of chapter 227.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 98–473, title II, § 212(a)(2), Oct. 12, 1984, 98 Stat. 2003.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Nov. 1, 1987, and applicable only to offenses committed after the taking effect of this section, see section 235(a)(1) of Pub. L. 98–473, set out as a note under section 3551 of this title.