Pen. Code, § 830.1 · Chapter 4.5. Peace Officers
Pen. Code, § 830.1
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
(a) A sheriff, undersheriff, or deputy sheriff, employed in that capacity, of a county, a chief of police of a city or chief, director, or chief executive officer of a consolidated municipal public safety agency that performs police functions, a police officer, employed in that capacity and appointed by the chief of police or chief, director, or chief executive of a public safety agency, of a city, a chief of police, or police officer of a district, including police officers of the San Diego Unified Port District Harbor Police, authorized by statute to maintain a police department, a marshal or deputy marshal of a superior court or county, a port warden or port police officer of the Harbor Department of the City of Los Angeles, or an inspector or investigator employed in that capacity in the office of a district attorney, is a peace officer. The authority of these peace officers extends to any place in the state, as follows:
(1) As to a public offense committed or for which there is probable cause to believe has been committed within the political subdivision that employs the peace officer or in which the peace officer serves.
(2) If the peace officer has the prior consent of the chief of police or chief, director, or chief executive officer of a consolidated municipal public safety agency, or person authorized by that chief, director, or officer to give consent, if the place is within a city, or of the sheriff, or person authorized by the sheriff to give consent, if the place is within a county.
(3) As to a public offense committed or for which there is probable cause to believe has been committed in the peace officer’s presence, and with respect to which there is immediate danger to person or property, or of the escape of the perpetrator of the offense.
(b) The Attorney General and special agents and investigators of the Department of Justice are peace officers, and those assistant chiefs, deputy chiefs, chiefs, deputy directors, and division directors designated as peace officers by the Attorney General are peace officers. The authority of these peace officers extends to any place in the state where a public offense has been committed or where there is probable cause to believe one has been committed.
(c) A deputy sheriff of the County of Los Angeles, and a deputy sheriff of the Counties of Amador, Butte, Calaveras, Colusa, Del Norte, Glenn, Humboldt, Imperial, Inyo, Kern, Kings, Lake, Lassen, Madera, Mariposa, Mendocino, Merced, Modoc, Mono, Nevada, Plumas, Riverside, San Benito, San Diego, San Luis Obispo, San Mateo, Santa Barbara, Santa Clara, Shasta, Siskiyou, Solano, Sonoma, Stanislaus, Sutter, Tehama, Trinity, Tulare, Tuolumne, and Yuba who is employed to perform duties exclusively or initially relating to custodial assignments with responsibilities for maintaining the operations of county custodial facilities, including the custody, care, supervision, security, movement, and transportation of inmates, is a peace officer whose authority extends to any place in the state only while engaged in the performance of the duties of the officer’s respective employment and for the purpose of carrying out the primary function of employment relating to the officer’s custodial assignments, or when performing other law enforcement duties directed by the officer’s employing agency during a local state of emergency.
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History
Amended by Stats. 2025, Ch. 51, Sec. 1. (SB 229) Effective January 1, 2026.
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Provisions in this library whose text cites Pen. Code, § 830.1; the first 50 in book order. Each shows the citation as that text prints it.
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Government Code
- Gov. Code, § 820.25Printed as Sections 830.1 and 830.2 of the Penal Code
- Gov. Code, § 823Printed as Sections 830.1, 830.2, and 830.32 of the Penal Code
- Gov. Code, § 3511Printed as Section 830.1 of the Penal Code
- Gov. Code, § 7480Printed as Section 830.1 of the Penal Code
- Gov. Code, § 8206Printed as Sections 830.1, 830.2, and 830.3 of the Penal Code
- Gov. Code, § 8228Printed as Sections 830.1, 830.2, and 830.3 of the Penal Code
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Labor Code
- Lab. Code, § 3212.5Printed as Section 830.1, 830.2, or 830.3 of the Penal Code
- Lab. Code, § 3212.85Printed as Sections 830.1 to 830.5, inclusive, of the Penal Code
- Lab. Code, § 3212.12Printed as Section 830.1 of the Penal Code
- Lab. Code, § 4709Printed as Section 830.1, 830.2, 830.3, 830.31, 830.32, 830.33, 830.34, 830.35, 830.36, 830.37, 830.38, 830.39, 830.4, 830.5, or 830.6 of the Penal Code
Penal Code
- Pen. Code, § 148.1Printed as Section 830.1 or 830.2
- Pen. Code, § 148.5Printed as Section 830.1 or 830.2 | Section 830.1, 830.2
- Pen. Code, § 148.9Printed as Section 830.1 or 830.2
- Pen. Code, § 190Printed as Section 830.1
- Pen. Code, § 190.2Printed as Section 830.1, 830.2, 830.3, 830.31, 830.32, 830.33, 830.34, 830.35, 830.36, 830.37, 830.4, 830.5, 830.6, 830.10, 830.11, or 830.12
- Pen. Code, § 217.1Printed as Section 830.1
- Pen. Code, § 298.1Printed as Sections 830, 830.1
- Pen. Code, § 530.8Printed as Section 830.1
- Pen. Code, § 538dPrinted as Sections 830.1 and 830.2
- Pen. Code, § 646.91Printed as Section 830.1, 830.2, 830.32
- Pen. Code, § 647aPrinted as Section 830.1
- Pen. Code, § 830.33Printed as Section 830.1
- Pen. Code, § 830.6Printed as Section 830.1
- Pen. Code, § 830.15Printed as Section 830.1
- Pen. Code, § 831Printed as Section 830.1
- Pen. Code, § 831.5Printed as Section 830.1
- Pen. Code, § 832Printed as Section 830.1
- Pen. Code, § 832.3Printed as Section 830.1
- Pen. Code, § 832.4Printed as Section 830.1
- Pen. Code, § 832.6Printed as Section 830.1
- Pen. Code, § 851.92Printed as Section 830.1
- Pen. Code, § 917Printed as Section 830.1
- Pen. Code, § 919Printed as Section 830.1
- Pen. Code, § 924.6Printed as Section 830.1
- Pen. Code, § 1170.02Printed as Section 830.1, 830.2, 830.3, 830.31, 830.32, 830.33, 830.34, 830.35, 830.36, 830.37, 830.4, 830.5, 830.6, 830.10, 830.11, or 830.12
- Pen. Code, § 1170.81Printed as Section 830.1
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