Division, chapter, article, and section headings contained herein shall not be deemed to govern, limit, modify or in any manner affect the scope, meaning or intent of the provisions of any division, chapter, article or section hereof.
Cal. Penal Code § 10004
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Applied in 10 court decisions — leading case 59 Cal. 2d 128 - In Re De La O (1963)
Most recently applied in 29 Cal. 4th 783 - In Re Scott (January 2003)
Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 106.
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.