Cal. PEN § 723
This is the official text of Cal. PEN § 723, part of California’s Penal Code — defines crimes and sets criminal procedure in California.
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Official statutory text
When a sheriff or other public officer authorized to execute process finds, or has reason to apprehend, that resistance will be made to the execution of the process, the officer may command as many able-bodied inhabitants of the officer’s county as he or she may think proper to assist in overcoming the resistance and, if necessary, in seizing, arresting, and confining the persons resisting, and their aiders and abettors.
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