GENERAL PROVISIONS›ARTICLE 5. Rights Over Persons 200-210.6

§ 204

California Government Code · 2026-09 edition · updated 2026-09-27 · California

The State may require services of persons, with or without compensation: In military duty; in jury duty; as witnesses; as town officers; in highway labor; in maintaining the public peace; in enforcing the service of process; in protecting life and property from fire, pestilence, wreck, and flood; and in other cases provided by statute.

(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.)

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