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2015 California Code
Penal Code - PEN
PART 4 - PREVENTION OF CRIMES AND APPREHENSION OF CRIMINALS
TITLE 12 - VIOLENT CRIME INFORMATION CENTER
Section 14214.

CA Penal Code § 14214 through (2015) Leg Sess What's This?

14214. (a) The Legislature finds and declares that it is the duty of all law enforcement agencies to immediately assist any person who is attempting to make a report of a missing person or runaway.

(b) The Department of the California Highway Patrol shall continue to implement the written policy, required to be developed and adopted pursuant to former Section 11114.3, for the coordination of each of its divisions with the police and sheriffs departments located within each division in taking, transmitting, and investigating reports of missing persons, including runaways.

(Added by renumbering Section 14210 by Stats. 2014, Ch. 437, Sec. 26. Effective January 1, 2015.)

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