SECTIONS 133-136 - California Statutes

CODE OF CIVIL PROCEDURE

SECTION 133-136

133. Courts of justice may be held and judicial business transacted
on any day, except as provided in this article.

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.

135. Every full day designated as a holiday by Section 6700 of the
Government Code, including that Thursday of November declared by the
President to be Thanksgiving Day, is a judicial holiday, except
September 9, known as "Admission Day," and any other day appointed by
the President, but not by the Governor, for a public fast,
thanksgiving, or holiday. If a judicial holiday falls on a Saturday
or a Sunday, the Judicial Council may designate an alternative day
for observance of the holiday. Every Saturday and the day after
Thanksgiving Day is a judicial holiday. Officers and employees of the
courts shall observe only the judicial holidays established pursuant
to this section.

136. If a day appointed for the holding or sitting of a court, or
to which it is adjourned, falls on a judicial holiday, it shall be
deemed appointed for or adjourned to the next day.