When the admission to bail is a matter of discretion, the Court or officer to whom the application is made must require reasonable notice thereof to be given to the District Attorney of the county.
Cal. Penal Code § 1274
In What Cases the Defendant May Be Admitted to Bail
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case 75 Cal. App. 4th 196 - McLaughlin v. State Board of Education (1999)
Most recently applied in 75 Cal. App. 4th 196 - McLaughlin v. State Board of Education (September 1999)
Enacted 1872.
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.