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California Penal Code Section 836.3

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A peace officer may make an arrest in obedience to a warrant
delivered to him, or may, without a warrant, arrest a person who,
while charged with or convicted of a misdemeanor, has escaped from
any county or city jail, prison, industrial farm or industrial road
camp or from the custody of the officer or person in charge of him
while engaged on any county road or other county work or going to or
returning from such county road or other county work or from the
custody of any officer or person in whose lawful custody he is when
such escape is not by force or violence.

Last modified: January 12, 2009