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Cal. Penal Code § 828
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 § 828
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.
The officer who executes the warrant must take the defendant before the nearest or most accessible magistrate of the county in which the offense is triable, and must deliver to him the complaint and the warrant, with his return endorsed thereon, and the magistrate must then proceed in the same manner as upon a warrant issued by himself.
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