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Penal Code § 145

CHAPTER 7. Other Offenses Against Public Justice

Current as of September 28, 2026Pen. Code, § 145Official source ↗

Enacted 1872.

Every public officer or other person, having arrested any person upon a criminal charge, who willfully delays to take such person before a magistrate having jurisdiction, to take his examination, is guilty of a misdemeanor.