Government Code section 204

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.

Source: Section 204, https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=GOV§ionNum=204. (updated Jan. 1, 1943; accessed Jun. 25, 2025).

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Location: https://california.public.law/codes/government_code_section_204

Original Source: Section 204, https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=GOV§ionNum=204. (last accessed May 12, 2025).