California Penal Code CHAPTER 3 - Security to Keep the Peace

• Section 701.
  An information may be laid before any of the magistrates mentioned in Section 808, that a person has threatened to commit an offense against the...
• Section 701.5.
  (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (b), no peace officer or agent of a peace officer shall use a person who is 12 years of age or younger as...
• Section 702.
  When the information is laid before such magistrate he must examine on oath the informer, and any witness he may produce, and must take their...
• Section 703.
  If it appears from the depositions that there is just reason to fear the commission of the offense threatened, by the person so informed against,...
• Section 704.
  When the person informed against is brought before the magistrate, if the charge be controverted, the magistrate shall take testimony in relation thereto. The evidence...
• Section 705.
  If it appears that there is no just reason to fear the commission of the offense alleged to have been threatened, the person complained of...
• Section 706.
  If, however, there is just reason to fear the commission of the offense, the person complained of may be required to enter into an undertaking...
• Section 707.
  If the undertaking required by the last section is given, the party informed of must be discharged. If he does not give it, the magistrate...
• Section 708.
  If the person complained of is committed for not giving the undertaking required, he may be discharged by any magistrate, upon giving the same.(Enacted 1872.)
• Section 709.
  The undertaking must be filed by the magistrate in the office of the Clerk of the county.(Enacted 1872.)
• Section 710.
  A person who, in the presence of a Court or magistrate, assaults or threatens to assault another, or to commit an offense against his person...
• Section 711.
  Upon the conviction of the person informed against of a breach of the peace, the undertaking is broken.(Enacted 1872.)
• Section 712.
  Upon the District Attorney’s producing evidence of such conviction to the Superior Court of the county, the Court must order the undertaking to be prosecuted,...
• Section 713.
  In the action the offense stated in the record of conviction must be alleged as a breach of the undertaking, and such record is conclusive...
• Section 714.
  Security to keep the peace, or be of good behavior, cannot be required except as prescribed in this Chapter.(Enacted 1872.)

Last modified: October 22, 2018