Section 982 Of Chapter 1. Of The Arraignment Of The Defendant From California Penal Code >> Title 6. >> Part 2. >> Chapter 1.
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. The defendant, when arrested under a warrant for an offense
not bailable, must be held in custody by the Sheriff of the county in
which the indictment is found or information filed, unless admitted
to bail after an examination upon a writ of habeas corpus; but if the
offense is bailable, there must be added to the body of the bench
warrant a direction to the following effect: "Or, if he requires it,
that you take him before any magistrate in that county, or in the
county in which you arrest him, that he may give bail to answer to
the indictment (or information);" and the Court, upon directing it to
issue, must fix the amount of bail, and an indorsement must be made
thereon and signed by the Clerk, to the following effect: "The
defendant is to be admitted to bail in the sum of ____ dollars."