Code Section

Penal Code - PEN

PART 2. OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE [681 - 1620]

  ( Part 2 enacted 1872. )
  

TITLE 10. MISCELLANEOUS PROCEEDINGS [1268 - 1424.5]

  ( Title 10 enacted 1872. )
  

CHAPTER 1. Bail [1268 - 1320.5]

  ( Chapter 1 enacted 1872. )
  

ARTICLE 8. Recommitment of the Defendant, After Having Given Bail or Deposited Money Instead of Bail [1310 - 1317]
  ( Article 8 enacted 1872. )

  
1316.  

When bail is taken upon the recommitment of the defendant, the undertaking must be in substantially the following form:

An order having been made on the ____ day of ____, A.D. eighteen ____, by the Court (naming it), that A. B. be admitted to bail in the sum of ____ dollars, in an action pending in that Court against him in behalf of the people of the State of California, upon an (information, presentment, indictment, or appeal, as the case may be), we, C. D. and E. F., of (stating their places of residence and occupation), hereby undertake that the above named A. B. will appear in that or any other Court in which his appearance may be lawfully required upon that (information, presentment, indictment, or appeal, as the case may be), and will at all times render himself amenable to its orders and process, and appear for judgment and surrender himself in execution thereof; or if he fails to perform either of these conditions, that we will pay to the people of the State of California the sum of ____ dollars (insert the sum in which the defendant is admitted to bail).

(Enacted 1872.)