California Law (Last Updated: March 4, 2014) |
Penal Code - PEN |
Part 2. OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE |
Title 1. OF THE PREVENTION OF PUBLIC OFFENSES |
Chapter 5. Suppression of Riots |
Section 723.
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When a sheriff or other public officer authorized to execute process finds, or has reason to apprehend, that resistance will be made to the execution of the process, the officer may command as many able-bodied inhabitants of the officer's county as he or she may think proper to assist in overcoming the resistance and, if necessary, in seizing, arresting, and confining the persons resisting, and their aiders and abettors.
(Amended by Stats. 1988, Ch. 160, Sec. 128.)