BILL NUMBER: AB 1648	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Maienschein

                        FEBRUARY 11, 2014

   An act to amend Section 814 of the Penal Code, relating to a
warrant of arrest.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1648, as introduced, Maienschein. Criminal procedure: warrant
of arrest.
   Existing law authorizes a warrant of arrest, issued by a
magistrate pursuant to a specific statute, to be substantially in a
specified form.
   This bill would change all references in the specified form from
magistrate to judge.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 814 of the Penal Code is amended to read:
   814.  A warrant of arrest issued under Section 813 may be in
substantially the following form:



   County of ____
   The people of the State of California to any peace officer of
 said   the  State:
   Complaint on oath having this day been laid before me that the
crime of ____ (designating it generally) has been committed and
accusing ____ (naming defendant) thereof, you are therefore commanded
forthwith to arrest the above named defendant and bring him  or
her  before me at ____ (naming the place), or in case of my
absence or inability to act, before the nearest or most accessible
 magistrate   judge  in this county.
  Dated at _____________ (place) this   day of  ,
 19  __  __  .
             ________ 
______________________________________
             (Signature and full official title of
 judge.) 
                                    ______________ 
                                    magistrate.)