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.
Cal. Gov. Code § 204
Rights Over Persons
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case 33 Cal. 4th 780 - Cassim v. Allstate Insurance (2004)
Most recently applied in 33 Cal. 4th 780 - Cassim v. Allstate Insurance (October 2004)
Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.