The provisions of this chapter are enacted pursuant to the provisions of Section 853.6 of the Penal Code of the State.
(Ord. 50, § 9)
If any person is arrested for the violation of any provision of this Code or any other law of the City, and such person is not immediately taken before a magistrate, as set forth in the Penal Code of the State, the arresting officer shall prepare, in duplicate, a written notice to appear in court containing the name and address of such person, the offense charged, and the time and place when and where such person shall appear in court.
(Ord. 50, § 1)
The place specified in the notice to appear provided for in Section 1-4.02 of this chapter shall be either:
(a) 
Before a judge of the Municipal Court within the County, which court has jurisdiction of the offense and which is nearest and most accessible with reference to the place where the arrest is made; or
(b) 
Upon the demand of the person arrested, before a judge of the Municipal Court of the Los Angeles Judicial District or before a judge in the judicial district in which the offense is alleged to have been committed; or
(c) 
Before an officer authorized by the City to receive a deposit of bail.
(Ord. 50, § 3)
The arresting officer shall deliver one copy of the notice to appear provided for in Section 1-4.02 of this chapter to the arrested person, and the arrested person, in order to secure his or her release from custody, shall give his or her written promise so to appear in court by signing the duplicate copy of the notice, which shall be retained by the arresting officer. Thereupon, the arresting officer shall forthwith release the arrested person from custody.
(Ord. 50, § 4)
The arresting officer, as soon as practicable, shall file the duplicate notice with the magistrate specified in the notice to appear provided for in Section 1-4.02 of the chapter. The defendant, prior to the date upon which he or she promised to appear in court, may deposit with the magistrate the amount of bail set by such magistrate. Thereafter, at the time when the case is called for arraignment before the magistrate, if the defendant does not appear, either in person or by counsel, the magistrate may declare the bail forfeited and, in his or her discretion, may order that no further proceedings be held in such case.
(Ord. 50, § 5)
No warrant shall be issued on the charge for which the notice to appear was issued for the arrest of a person who has given such written promise to appear in court, unless and until he or she has violated such promise or has failed to deposit bail, to appear for arraignment, trial, or judgment, or to comply with the terms and provisions of the judgment, as required by law.
When a person signs a written promise to appear at the time and place specified in the written promise to appear and has not posted bail, as set forth in Section 1-4.06 of this chapter, the magistrate shall issue and have delivered for execution a warrant for the arrest of such person within 20 days after his or her failure to appear as promised. If such person promises to appear before an officer authorized to accept bail, other than a magistrate, and such person fails to do so on or before the date upon which he or she promised to appear, then within 20 days after the delivery of such written promise to appear by the officer to the magistrate having jurisdiction over the offense, such magistrate shall issue and have delivered for execution a warrant for the arrest of such person.
(Ord. 50, §§ 6, 8)
If any person shall violate his or her promise to appear before an officer authorized to receive bail, other than the magistrate, the officer shall immediately deliver to the magistrate having jurisdiction over the offense charged the written promise to appear and the complaint, if any, filed by the arresting officer.
Any person willfully violating his or her written promise to appear in court shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, regardless of the disposition of the charge upon which he or she was originally arrested.
(Ord. 50, §§ 7, 8)