Section 204 Of Article 5. Rights Over Persons From California Government Code >> Division 1. >> Title 1. >> Chapter 1. >> Article 5.

. The State may require services of persons, with or without compensation: In military duty; in jury duty; as witnesses; as town officers; in highway labor; in maintaining the public peace; in enforcing the service of process; in protecting life and property from fire, pestilence, wreck, and flood; and in other cases provided by statute.