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Part 1 Of Courts of Justice
Title 1 Organization and Jurisdiction
Chapter 6 GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING
COURTS OF JUSTICE
Article 3.  Judicial Holidays
Sections 133-136


 

Chapter 6 GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING
COURTS OF JUSTICE
Article 3.  Judicial Holidays Sections 133-136


 

CODE OF CIVIL PROCEDURE
SECTION 134

134.  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (c), the courts shall be
closed for the transaction of judicial business on judicial holidays
for all but the following purposes:
   (1) To give, upon their request, instructions to a jury when
deliberating on their verdict.
   (2) To receive a verdict or discharge a jury.
   (3) For the conduct of arraignments and the exercise of the powers
of a magistrate in a criminal action, or in a proceeding of a
criminal nature.
   (4) For the conduct of Saturday small claims court sessions
pursuant to the Small Claims Act set forth in Chapter 5.5 (commencing
with Section 116.110).
   (b) Injunctions and writs of prohibition may be issued and served
on any day.
   (c) In any superior court, one or more departments of the court
may remain open and in session for the transaction of any business
that may come before the department in the exercise of the civil or
criminal jurisdiction of the court, or both, on a judicial holiday or
at any hours of the day or night, or both, as the judges of the
court prescribe.
   (d) The fact that a court is open on a judicial holiday shall not
make that day a nonholiday for purposes of computing the time
required for the conduct of any proceeding nor for the performance of
any act.  Any paper lodged with the court at a time when the court
is open pursuant to subdivision (c), shall be filed by the court on
the next day that is not a judicial holiday, if the document meets
appropriate criteria for filing.
 

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