Red Bluff Municipal Code Div. 2 Citation Procedure

If any person shall be arrested for the violation of any provision of this code or any other law of the city, and the person is not immediately taken before a magistrate, as prescribed in the California Penal Code, the arresting officer shall prepare in duplicate a written notice to appear in court, containing the name and address of the person, the offense charged and the time and place where and when the person shall appear in court.

Any person wilfully violating his or her written promise to appear in court shall be guilty of a misdemeanor regardless of the disposition of the charge upon which he or she was originally arrested.

Penalty, see § 1.23

When a person signs a written promise to appear at the time and place specified in the written promise to appear and has not posted bail as provided in California Penal Code § 853.6, the magistrate shall issue and have delivered for execution a warrant for the person’s arrest within 20 days after his or her failure to appear as promised, or, if the person promises to appear before an officer authorized to accept bail other than a magistrate and fails to do so on or before the date which he or she promised to appear, then, within 20 days after the delivery of the written promise to appear by the officer to a magistrate having jurisdiction over the offense.