Chapter 1.12
ARREST PROCEDURE
Sections:
1.12.010 Notice to appear—Required when—Contents.
1.12.020 Failure to appear or post bail—Issuance of arrest warrant.
1.12.010 Notice to appear—Required when—Contents.
If any person is arrested for a violation of any ordinance of the city and such person is not immediately taken before a magistrate as prescribed in Section 853.1 of the Penal Code of the state, the arresting officer shall prepare in duplicate a written notice to appear in court, containing the name and address of such person, the offense charged, and the time and place where and when such person shall appear in court. (Prior code § 1.8)
1.12.020 Failure to appear or post bail—Issuance of arrest warrant.
When a person arrested for a violation of any ordinance of the city signs a written promise to appear at the time and place specified in the written promise to appear and has not posted bail as provided in Section 853.1 of the Penal Code of the state, the magistrate shall issue and have delivered for execution a warrant for his arrest within twenty days after his failure to appear as promised, or if such person promises to appear before an officer authorized to accept bail other than a magistrate and fails to do so on or before the date which he promised to appear, then, within twenty days after the delivery of such written promise to appear by the officer to a magistrate having jurisdiction over the offense. (Prior code § 1.9)
1.12.030 Violation—Penalty.
Any person arrested for a violation of any ordinance of the city wilfully violating his written promise to appear in court is guilty of an infraction and punishable as provided in Section 1.08.020, regardless of the disposition of the charge upon which he was originally arrested. (Ord. 677 § 1, 1975; prior code § 1.10)
1.12.040 Power of arrest.
A. The following officers and their designated subordinates shall have and are hereby vested with the authority to arrest any person who violates the following provisions of this code in the manner provided by Section 836.5 of the California Penal Code:
Title of officer
Business license administrator
City engineer
Chief building inspector
Zoning administrator.
B. The city council shall have the power to designate by resolution that particular officers or employees shall be authorized to enforce the foregoing provisions of this code in addition to those officers enumerated in subsection A of this section. (Ord. 82-005 § 1, 1982)