California Vehicle Code ARTICLE 2 - Release Upon Promise to Appear

• Section 40500.
  (a) Whenever a person is arrested for any violation of this code not declared to be a felony, or for a violation of an ordinance of...
• Section 40501.
  (a) The time specified in the notice to appear shall be a specific date which is at least 21 days after the arrest, except that the...
• Section 40502.
  The place specified in the notice to appear shall be any of the following:(a) Before a magistrate within the county in which the offense charged is...
• Section 40503.
  Every notice to appear or notice of violation and every complaint or information charging a violation of any provision of this code regulating the speed...
• Section 40504.
  (a) The officer shall deliver one copy of the notice to appear to the arrested person and the arrested person in order to secure release must...
• Section 40505.
  Whenever any traffic or police officer delivers a notice to appear or notice of violation charging an offense under this code to any person, it...
• Section 40506.
  The officer shall, as soon as practicable, file a copy of the notice with the magistrate or before a person authorized by the magistrate or...
• Section 40506.5.
  Prior to the date upon which the defendant promised to appear and without depositing bail, the defendant may request a continuance of the written promise...
• Section 40507.
  A written promise to appear in court may be complied with by an appearance by counsel.(Enacted by Stats. 1959, Ch. 3.)
• Section 40508.
  (a) A person willfully violating his or her written promise to appear or a lawfully granted continuance of his or her promise to appear in court...
• Section 40508.5.
  (a) In addition to the fees authorized or required by any other provision of law, a county may, by resolution of the board of supervisors, require...
• Section 40508.6.
  The superior court in any county may establish administrative assessments, not to exceed ten dollars ($10), for clerical and administrative costs incurred for the following...
• Section 40509.
  (a) Except as required under subdivision (b) of Section 40509.5, if a person has violated a written promise to appear or a lawfully granted continuance of...
• Section 40509.1.
  If any person has willfully failed to comply with a court order, except a failure to appear, to pay a fine, or to attend traffic...
• Section 40509.5.
  (a) Except as required under subdivision (b), if, with respect to an offense described in subdivision (d), a person has violated his or her written promise...
• Section 40510.
  (a) Prior to the date upon which a defendant promised to appear, or prior to the expiration of any lawful continuance of that date, or upon...
• Section 40510.5.
  (a) The clerk of the court may accept a payment and forfeiture of at least 10 percent of the total bail amount for each infraction violation...
• Section 40511.
  If bail has not been previously fixed and approved by the judges of the court in accordance with a schedule of bail, the magistrate shall...
• Section 40512.
  (a) (1) Except as specified in paragraph (2) and subdivision (b), if at the time the case is called for arraignment before the magistrate the defendant does...
• Section 40512.5.
  (a) Except as specified in subdivision (b), if at the time the case is called for trial the defendant does not appear, either in person or...
• Section 40512.6.
  (a) If a defendant who elects or is ordered to attend a traffic violator school in accordance with Section 42005 and has paid the full traffic...
• Section 40513.
  (a) Whenever written notice to appear has been prepared, delivered, and filed with the court, an exact and legible duplicate copy of the notice when filed...
• Section 40514.
  No warrant shall issue on the charge for the arrest of a person who has given his written promise to appear in court or before...
• Section 40515.
  (a) When a person signs a written promise to appear or is granted a continuance of his or her promise to appear at the time and...
• Section 40516.
  (a) The expenses incurred by the Department of the California Highway Patrol and the Department of Motor Vehicles in executing any warrant issued as a result...
• Section 40518.
  (a) Whenever a written notice to appear has been issued by a peace officer or by a qualified employee of a law enforcement agency on a...
• Section 40519.
  (a) Any person who has received a written notice to appear for an infraction may, prior to the time at which the person is required to...
• Section 40520.
  (a) A notice to appear issued pursuant to Section 40518 for an alleged violation recorded by an automatic enforcement system shall contain, or be accompanied by,...
• Section 40521.
  (a) Except when personal appearance is required by the bail schedule established under Section 1269b of the Penal Code, a person to whom a notice to...
• Section 40522.
  Whenever a person is arrested for violations specified in Section 40303.5 and none of the disqualifying conditions set forth in subdivision (b) of Section 40610...

Last modified: October 22, 2018