Section 697.

  1. Law
  2. California Code
  3. Code - PEN
  4. 2 - OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
  5. OF THE PREVENTION OF PUBLIC OFFENSES
  6. 2 - Of the Intervention of the Officers of Justice
  7. Section 697.

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Public offenses may be prevented by the intervention of the officers of justice:

1. By requiring security to keep the peace;

2. By forming a police in cities and towns, and by requiring their attendance in exposed places;

3. By suppressing riots.

(Enacted 1872.)


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