California Penal Code ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions

• Section 914.
  (a) When the grand jury is impaneled and sworn, it shall be charged by the court. In doing so, the court shall give the grand jurors...
• Section 914.1.
  When a grand jury is impaneled, for purposes which include the investigation of, or inquiry into, county matters of civil concern, the judge of the...
• Section 914.5.
  The grand jury shall not spend money or incur obligations in excess of the amount budgeted for its investigative activities pursuant to this chapter by...
• Section 915.
  When the grand jury has been impaneled, sworn, and charged, it shall retire to a private room, except when operating under a finding pursuant to...
• Section 916.
  Each grand jury shall choose its officers, except the foreman, and shall determine its rules of proceeding. Adoption of its rules of procedure and all...
• Section 916.1.
  If the foreman of a grand jury is absent from any meeting or if he is disqualified to act, the grand jury may select a...
• Section 916.2.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a grand juror who is a current employee of, or a former or retired employee last employed within the...
• Section 917.
  (a) The grand jury may inquire into all public offenses committed or triable within the county and present them to the court by indictment.(b) Except as provided...
• Section 918.
  If a member of a grand jury knows, or has reason to believe, that a public offense, triable within the county, has been committed, he...
• Section 919.
  (a) The grand jury may inquire into the case of every person imprisoned in the jail of the county on a criminal charge and not indicted.(b) The...
• Section 920.
  The grand jury may investigate and inquire into all sales and transfers of land, and into the ownership of land, which, under the state laws,...
• Section 921.
  The grand jury is entitled to free access, at all reasonable times, to the public prisons, and to the examination, without charge, of all public...
• Section 922.
  The powers and duties of the grand jury in connection with proceedings for the removal of district, county, or city officers are prescribed in Article...
• Section 923.
  (a) Whenever the Attorney General considers that the public interest requires, he or she may, with or without the concurrence of the district attorney, direct the...
• Section 924.
  Every grand juror who willfully discloses the fact of an information or indictment having been made for a felony, until the defendant has been arrested,...
• Section 924.1.
  (a) Every grand juror who, except when required by a court, willfully discloses any evidence adduced before the grand jury, or anything which he himself or...
• Section 924.2.
  Each grand juror shall keep secret whatever he himself or any other grand juror has said, or in what manner he or any other grand...
• Section 924.3.
  A grand juror cannot be questioned for anything he may say or any vote he may give in the grand jury relative to a matter...
• Section 924.4.
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Sections 924.1 and 924.2, any grand jury or, if the grand jury is no longer impaneled, the presiding judge of the...
• Section 924.6.
  (a) If no indictment is returned, the court that impaneled the grand jury shall, upon application of either party, order disclosure of all or part of...

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