ARTICLE 1. General Provisions [914. - 924.6.]
Article 1 added by Stats. 1959, Ch. 501.
§§ 914–924.6 · 20 sections
- § 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 such information as it…
- § 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 superior…
- § 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 the…
- § 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 939.1,…
- § 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 public…
- § 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 member of that body to act as foreman…
- § 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 prior…
- § 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…
- § 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 may declare it to his…
- § 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 grand jury…
- § 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, might or should…
- § 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 records within…
- § 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 3…
- § 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…
- § 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, is…
- § 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 any…
- § 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 juror has voted on a matter…
- § 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 legally pending before the jury,…
- § 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 superior…
- § 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 the…