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reason to believe from the report of the probation officer, or otherwise, that the person so placed upon probation is violating the conditions of his probation, or engaging in criminal practices, or has become abandoned to improper associates, or a vicious life. Upon such revocation and termination, the court may, if the sentence has been suspended, pronounce judgment after the said suspension of the sentence for any time within the longest period for which the defendant might have been sentenced, but if the judgment has been pronounced and the execution thereof has been suspended, the court may revoke such suspension, whereupon the judgment shall be in full force and effect, and the person shall be delivered over to the proper officer to serve his sentence.

(d) Court may revoke order. The court shall have power at any time during the term of probation to revoke or modify its order of suspension, of imposition or execution of sentence. It may, at any time, when the ends of justice will be subserved thereby, and when the good conduct and reform of the person so held on probation shall warrant it, terminate the period of probation and discharge the person so held, but no such order shall be made without written notice first given by the court or the clerk thereof to the proper probation officer of the intention to revoke or modify its order, and in all cases, if the court has not seen fit to revoke the order of probation and impose sentence or pronounce judgment, the defendant shall, at the end of the term of probation be by the court discharged.

(e) Change of plea. Every defendant who has fulfilled the conditions of his probation for the entire period thereof, or who shall have been discharged from probation prior to the termation of the period thereof, shall at any time prior to the expiration of the maximum period of punishment for the offense of which he has been convicted, dating from said. discharge from probation or said termination of said period of probation, be permitted by the court to withdraw his plea of guilty and enter a plea of not guilty; or if he has been convicted after a plea of not guilty, the court shall set aside the verdict of guilty; and in either case the court shall thereupon dismiss the accusation or information against such defendant who shall thereafter be released from all penalties and disabilities resulting from the offense or crime of which he has been convicted.

(f) Probation officers to serve. The same probation officers and assistant probation officers and deputy probation offi

cers shall serve under this act as are appointed under the act known as the juvenile court law, and entitled "An act to be known as the juvenile court law, and concerning persons under the age of twenty-one years; and in certain cases providing for their care, custody, and maintenance; providing for the probationary treatment of such persons, and for the commitment of such persons to the Whittier State School and the Preston School of Industry, the California School for Girls, and other institutions; establishing probation officers and a probation committee to deal with such persons and fixing the salary thereof; providing for the establishment of detention homes for such persons; fixing the method of procedure and treatment or commitment where crimes have been committed by such persons; providing for the punishment of those guilty of offenses with reference to such persons, and defining such crimes; and repealing the juvenile court law approved March 8, 1909, as amended by an act approved April 5, 1911, and as amended by an act approved June 16, 1913, and all amendments thereof, and all acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith," approved June 5, 1915, or under any laws amending or superseding the same, except in the case of offenses committed in counties and cities and counties of the second class and counties of the third class; provided, however, that in all cases of offenses defined by section twenty-one of said act known as the juvenile court law and by section two hundred seventy of the Penal Code of California, the same probation officers, assistants and deputies shall serve under this act as are appointed under the said juvenile court law.

(g) Adult probation board appointed. Term. Vacancy. Removal. Duty of board. No compensation. Adult probation officers. Payment of salaries. Expenses. Nomination of adult probation officers. Additional deputies. Offices. In counties and cities and counties of the second class, the judges designated for the hearing and disposition of criminal cases and proceedings by a majority vote and in counties of the third class the judge of the department or the judges of the departments, by majority vote, to which criminal actions and proceedings are assigned shall by order entered in the minutes of the court appoint seven citizens of good moral character to be known as the adult probation board and shall fill all vacancies occurring in such board. The clerk of said court shall immediately notify each person appointed on said board and thereupon said person shall appear before a judge of the superior court and qualify by taking an oath, which shall be entered in said court record, to perform faithfully the

duties of such adult probation board. The members of such adult probation board shall hold office for four years and until their successors are appointed and qualify; provided, that of those first appointed one shall hold office for one year, two for two years, two for three years and two for four years, the terms for which the respective members shall hold office to be determined by lot as soon after their appointment as may be. When any vacancy occurs in any probation board by expiration of the term of office of any member thereof, the successor shall be appointed to hold office for the term of four years. When any vacancy occurs for any other reason the appointee shall hold office for the unexpired term of his predecessor. Any member of the probation board may be removed for cause at any time by an affirmative vote of four members of said board at a meeting called for the special purpose of considering the question of said removal and the subsequent written approval of a majority of the judges designated for the hearing and disposition of criminal cases and proceedings in counties and cities and counties of the second class, and the judge of the department or a majority of the judges of the departments to which criminal actions and proceedings are assigned in counties of the third class, said written approval to be filed with the clerk of the court within thirty days after the written report of the said board has been received by said. judge. Written notice as to said special meeting shall be served on each of the members of said board at least ten days. prior to the date set therefor and shall specify the purpose thereof.

It shall be the duty of such adult probation board to exercise a friendly supervision of probationers when so directed by the court, to furnish the court information and assistance whenever required upon the request of the court and from time to time to advise and recommend to the court any changes or modification of the order made in the case of a probationer as may be for the best interests of such person. Members of the adult probation board shall serve without compensation.

In counties or cities and counties of the second class there shall be and there are hereby created the offices of one adult probation officer, one assistant adult probation officer and four deputy adult probation officers. The salaries of said officers shall be as follows: Adult probation officer, two hundred twenty-five dollars per month; one assistant adult probation officer, one hundred seventy-five dollars per month; one assistant adult probation officer, one hundred twenty-five dol

lars per month: three deputy adult probation officers, each, one hundred dollars per month. In counties of the third class there shall be and there are hereby created the offices of one adult probation officer, one assistant adult probation officer and one deputy adult probation officer. The salaries of said officers shall be as follows: Adult probation officer, one hundred seventy-five dollars per month; assistant adult probation officer, one hundred sixty dollars per month; deputy adult probation officer one hundred dollars per month. The deputy adult probation officer in counties of the third elass, shall be a woman and shall be a competent stenographer and typist of suficient ability to perform the clerical and stenographic work of the office in addition to her other duties; provided, however, that in the event an adult probation department is created in counties of the third class, from and after the ereation of such department and the appointment of an adult probation officer or any deputy or assistant or like officer who shall relieve the probation officer of the adult probation work, the offices of assistant probation officer at a salary of one hundred seventy-five dellars a month and of assistant probation officer at a salary of one hundred sixty dollars a month shall cease and terminate and be abolished in counties of this class.

The salaries of the adult probation officers, assistant adult probation officers and deputy adult probation officers in counties or cities and counties of the second class and in counties of the third class shall be paid out of the county treasury of the county for which they are appointed respectively in the same manner as the salaries of the other county officers. The adult probation officers, assistant adult probation officers and deputy adult probation officers in said counties or cities and counties of the second class and in counties of the third class shall be allowed such necessary incidental expenses incurred in the performance of their duties as required by any laws of the state of California as may be authori.ed by à judge designated for the hearing and disposition of criminal cases and proceedings or by the judge of a department to which criminal actions and proceedings are assigned, and the same shall be charged upon the county in which the court appointing them has jurisdiction and said expenses shall be paid out of the county treasury upon a written order of said judge of said county directing the county auditor to draw his warrant upon the county treasuter for the specific amount of such expenses. The adult

probation officer shall keep a list of expenses and file a copy monthly with the county board of supervisors.

In counties or cities and counties of the second class the adult probation officer, and the assistant adult probation offieer and deputy adult probation officers hereinbefore provided for shall be nominated by the adult probation board in manner as the judges designated for the hearing and disposition of criminal cases and proceedings shall direct and the appointment of such adult probation officer, assistant adult probation officer and deputy adult probation officers shall be made by a majority vote of said judges. The term of office of the adult probation officer, assistant adult probation officer and deputy adult probation officers shall be two years from the date of their said appointments.

In counties of the third class the adult probation officer, the assistant adult probation officer and the deputy adult probation officer hereinbefore provided for shall be nominated by the adult probation board and in manner as the judge of the department or a majority of the judges of the departments to which criminal actions and proceedings are assigned shall direct and the appointment of such adult probation officer, assistant adult probation officer, deputy adult probation officer shall be made by said judge or a majority of said judges. The term of office of the adult probation officer, the assistant adult probation officer and the deputy probation officer shall be two years from the date of their appointments. The adult probation officer, the assistant adult probation officer and any deputy adult probation officer may at any time be removed in counties or cities and counties of the second class by vote of a majority of the judges designated for the hearing and disposition of criminal cases and proceedings and in counties of the third class by the judge of the department or by a majority of the judges of the departments to which criminal actions and proceedings are assigned for good cause shown and on the filing of written charges by the said judge or judges with the adult probation board. In counties or cities and counties of the second class the judges designated for the hearing and disposition of criminal cases and proceedings, and in counties of the third class the judge of the department or the judges of the departments to which criminal actions and proceedings are assigned shall have authority by an order entered in the minutes of said court to determine and fix the amount of bonds of the adult probation officer of county or city and county and of the assistant adult probation officer of the county or city and

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