Penal Code § 19.6

Punishment for infractions; Entitlement to public defender

An infraction is not punishable by imprisonment. A person charged with an infraction shall not be entitled to a trial by jury. A person charged with an infraction shall not be entitled to have the public defender or other counsel appointed at public expense to represent him or her unless he or she is arrested and not released on his or her written promise to appear, his or her own recognizance, or a deposit of bail.

History

Added Stats 1968 ch 1192 § 3, operative January 1, 1969, as Pen C § 19c. Amended and renumbered by Stats 1989 ch 897 § 8.

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