Pen. Code, § 18250 · Chapter 1. Seizure and Subsequent Procedures
Pen. Code, § 18250
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
(a) If any of the following persons is at the scene of a domestic violence incident involving a threat to human life or a physical assault, is serving a protective order as defined in Section 6218 of the Family Code, or is serving a gun violence restraining order issued pursuant to Division 3.2 (commencing with Section 18100), that person shall take temporary custody of any firearm or other deadly weapon in plain sight or discovered pursuant to a consensual or other lawful search as necessary for the protection of the peace officer or other persons present:
(1) A sheriff, undersheriff, deputy sheriff, marshal, deputy marshal, or police officer of a city, as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 830.1.
(2) A peace officer of the Department of the California Highway Patrol, as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 830.2.
(3) A member of the University of California Police Department, as defined in subdivision (b) of Section 830.2.
(4) An officer listed in Section 830.6, while acting in the course and scope of the officer’s employment as a peace officer.
(5) A member of a California State University Police Department, as defined in subdivision (c) of Section 830.2.
(6) A peace officer of the Department of Parks and Recreation, as defined in subdivision (f) of Section 830.2.
(7) A peace officer, as defined in subdivision (d) of Section 830.31.
(8) A peace officer, as defined in subdivisions (a) and (b) of Section 830.32.
(9) A peace officer, as defined in Section 830.5.
(10) A sworn member of the Department of Justice who is a peace officer, as defined in Section 830.1.
(11) A member of the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District Police Department, as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 830.33.
(b) This section shall become operative on January 1, 2016.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Repealed (in Sec. 4.5) and added by Stats. 2014, Ch. 872, Sec. 5.5. (AB 1014) Effective January 1, 2015. Section operative January 1, 2016, by its own provisions.
Source of truth
- Edition
- As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
- Official file
- https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=PEN§ionNum=18250.
- Text hash
- sha256 2622ef12b6beabe802d20e28e18823ff792f5095e5b92c7e9f98ea7ec907af00
- Composed by
- compose_ca.py 2026-10-22: the Legislative Counsel's CAML content files read by a tokenizer (caml_readers.reader_a); an independent xml.etree reading (caml_readers.reader_b) agrees on every section
This section cites
Provisions in this library that the text above cites, as it prints each citation. A range cited as “ss. 61.13-61.16” links its first and last provisions.
Penal Code
- Pen. Code, § 830.1Printed as Section 830.1
- Pen. Code, § 830.2Printed as Section 830.2
- Pen. Code, § 830.31Printed as Section 830.31
- Pen. Code, § 830.32Printed as Section 830.32
- Pen. Code, § 830.33Printed as Section 830.33
- Pen. Code, § 830.5Printed as Section 830.5
- Pen. Code, § 830.6Printed as Section 830.6
- Pen. Code, pt. 6, tit. 2, div. 3.2Gun Violence Restraining OrdersPrinted as Division 3.2 (commencing with Section 18100)
Cited by 3 provisions
Provisions in this library whose text cites Pen. Code, § 18250. Each shows the citation as that text prints it.
Procedural information only. Not legal advice and not a substitute for the advice of an attorney. Confirm the current text with the official publisher before relying on it.