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Cal. Penal Code § 827

Current through 2025–2026 Regular Session (leginfo weekly dump, 2026-07-12)

Part of Chapter 4: The Warrant of Arrest, California Penal Code.

Full text of Cal. Penal Code § 827

Statutory text current through the 2025–2026 Regular Session (leginfo weekly dump, 2026-07-12). This publication reproduces the official statutory text; it is not the official statutes of the State of California.

Cal. Penal Code § 827Primary source, current through the 2025–2026 Regular Session (leginfo weekly dump, 2026-07-12)
When a complaint is filed with a magistrate of the commission of a felony originally triable in the superior court of another county of the state than that in which the magistrate sits, but showing that the defendant is in the county where the complaint is filed, the same proceedings must be had as prescribed in this chapter, except that the warrant must require the defendant to be taken before the nearest or most accessible magistrate of the county in which the offense is triable, and the complaint must be delivered by the magistrate to the officer to whom the warrant is delivered.

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