Pen. Code, § 1310 · Article 8. Recommitment of the Defendant, After Having Given Bail or Deposited Money Instead of Bail
Pen. Code, § 1310
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
The court to which the committing magistrate returns the depositions, or in which an indictment, information, or appeal is pending, or to which a judgment on appeal is remitted to be carried into effect, may, by an order entered upon its minutes, direct the arrest of the defendant and his or her commitment to the officer to whose custody he or she was committed at the time of giving bail, and his or her detention until legally discharged, in the following cases:
(a) When, by reason of his or her failure to appear, he or she has incurred a forfeiture of his or her bail, or of money deposited instead thereof.
(b) When it satisfactorily appears to the court that his or her bail, or either of them, are dead or insufficient, or have removed from the state.
(c) Upon an indictment being found or information filed in the cases provided in Section 985.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Amended by Stats. 1987, Ch. 828, Sec. 85.
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