California

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5,800 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.

• § 18405 — (a) If a petition is filed under Section 18400, the law enforcement agency shall inform the owner or person who had lawful possession of the firearm or other deadly weapon, at that person’s last known
• § 18410 — (a) If the person who receives a petition under Section 18405 requests a hearing, the court clerk shall set a hearing no later than 30 days from receipt of that request.
• § 18415 — If the person who receives a petition under Section 18405 does not request a hearing or does not otherwise respond within 30 days of the receipt of the notice, the law enforcement agency may file a pe
• § 18420 — (a) If, at a hearing under Section 18410, the court does not order the return of the firearm or other deadly weapon to the owner or person who had lawful possession, that person may petition the court
• § 185.5 — (a) A law enforcement officer shall not wear a facial covering that conceals or obscures their facial identity in the performance of their duties, except as expressly authorized in this section.
• § 18500 — The law enforcement agency, or the individual law enforcement officer, shall not be liable for any act in the good faith exercise of this division.
• § 186 — This act may be cited as the “California Control of Profits of Organized Crime Act.
• § 186.1 — The Legislature hereby finds and declares that an effective means of punishing and deterring criminal activities of organized crime is through the forfeiture of profits acquired and accumulated as a r
• § 186.10 — (a) Any person who conducts or attempts to conduct a transaction or more than one transaction within a seven-day period involving a monetary instrument or instruments of a total value exceeding five t
• § 186.11 — (a) (1) Any person who commits two or more related felonies, a material element of which is fraud or embezzlement, which involve a pattern of related felony conduct, and the pattern of related felony
• § 186.12 — (a) (1) A felony for purposes of this section means a felony violation of subdivision (d) or (e) of Section 368, or a felony violation of subdivision (c) of Section 15656 of the Welfare and Institutio
• § 186.2 — For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply: (a) “Criminal profiteering activity” means an act committed or attempted or a threat made for financial gain or advantage, which act or t
• § 186.20 — This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “California Street Terrorism Enforcement and Prevention Act.
• § 186.21 — The Legislature hereby finds and declares that it is the right of every person, regardless of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual ori
• § 186.22 — (a) A person who actively participates in a criminal street gang with knowledge that its members engage in, or have engaged in, a pattern of criminal gang activity, and who willfully promotes, further
• § 186.22a — (a) Every building or place used by members of a criminal street gang for the purpose of the commission of the offenses listed in subdivision (e) of Section 186.
• § 186.23 — This chapter does not apply to employees engaged in concerted activities for their mutual aid and protection, or the activities of labor organizations or their members or agents.
• § 186.24 — If any part or provision of this chapter, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder of the chapter, including the application of that part or provision t
• § 186.25 — Nothing in this chapter shall prevent a local governing body from adopting and enforcing laws consistent with this chapter relating to gangs and gang violence.
• § 186.26 — (a) Any person who solicits or recruits another to actively participate in a criminal street gang, as defined in subdivision (f) of Section 186.
• § 186.28 — (a) Any person, corporation, or firm who shall knowingly supply, sell, or give possession or control of any firearm to another shall be punished by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section
• § 186.3 — (a) In any case in which a person is alleged to have been engaged in a pattern of criminal profiteering activity, upon a conviction of the underlying offense, the assets listed in subdivisions (b) and
• § 186.30 — (a) Any person described in subdivision (b) shall register with the chief of police of the city in which he or she resides, or the sheriff of the county if he or she resides in an unincorporated area,
• § 186.31 — At the time of sentencing in adult court, or at the time of the dispositional hearing in the juvenile court, the court shall inform any person subject to Section 186.
• § 186.32 — (a) The registration required by Section 186.
• § 186.33 — (a) Any person required to register pursuant to Section 186.
• § 186.34 — (a) For purposes of this section and Sections 186.
• § 186.35 — (a) A person who is listed by a law enforcement agency in a shared gang database as a gang member, suspected gang member, associate, or affiliate and who has contested his or her designation pursuant
• § 186.36 — (a) The Department of Justice is responsible for establishing regulations for shared gang databases.
• § 186.4 — (a) The prosecuting agency shall, in conjunction with the criminal proceeding, file a petition of forfeiture with the superior court of the county in which the defendant has been charged with the unde
• § 186.5 — (a) Any person claiming an interest in the property or proceeds may, at any time within 30 days from the date of the first publication of the notice of seizure, or within 30 days after receipt of actu
• § 186.6 — (a) Concurrent with, or subsequent to, the filing of the petition, the prosecuting agency may move the superior court for the following pendente lite orders to preserve the status quo of the property
• § 186.7 — (a) If the trier of fact at the forfeiture hearing finds that the alleged property or proceeds is forfeitable pursuant to Section 186.
• § 186.8 — Notwithstanding that no response or claim has been filed pursuant to Section 186.
• § 186.9 — As used in this chapter: (a) “Conducts” includes, but is not limited to, initiating, concluding, or participating in conducting, initiating, or concluding a transaction.
• § 187 — (a) Murder is the unlawful killing of a human being, or a fetus, with malice aforethought.
• § 18710 — (a) Except as provided by this chapter, any person, firm, or corporation who, within this state, possesses any destructive device, other than fixed ammunition of a caliber greater than .
• § 18715 — (a) Every person who recklessly or maliciously has in possession any destructive device or any explosive in any of the following places is guilty of a felony: (1) On a public street or highway.
• § 18720 — Every person who possesses any substance, material, or any combination of substances or materials, with the intent to make any destructive device or any explosive without first obtaining a valid permi
• § 18725 — Every person who willfully does any of the following is guilty of a felony and is punishable by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170 for two, four, or six years: (a) Carries any de
• § 18730 — Except as provided by this chapter, any person, firm, or corporation who, within this state, sells, offers for sale, or knowingly transports any destructive device, other than fixed ammunition of a ca
• § 18735 — (a) Except as provided by this chapter, any person, firm, or corporation who, within this state, sells, offers for sale, possesses or knowingly transports any fixed ammunition of a caliber greater tha
• § 18740 — Every person who possesses, explodes, ignites, or attempts to explode or ignite any destructive device or any explosive with intent to injure, intimidate, or terrify any person, or with intent to wron
• § 18745 — Every person who explodes, ignites, or attempts to explode or ignite any destructive device or any explosive with intent to commit murder is guilty of a felony, and shall be punished by imprisonment i
• § 18750 — Every person who willfully and maliciously explodes or ignites any destructive device or any explosive that causes bodily injury to any person is guilty of a felony, and shall be punished by imprisonm
• § 18755 — (a) Every person who willfully and maliciously explodes or ignites any destructive device or any explosive that causes the death of any person is guilty of a felony, and shall be punished by imprisonm
• § 18780 — A person convicted of a violation of this chapter shall not be granted probation, and the execution of the sentence imposed upon that person shall not be suspended by the court.
• § 188 — (a) For purposes of Section 187, malice may be express or implied.
• § 18800 — (a) Nothing in this chapter prohibits the sale to, purchase by, or possession, transportation, storage, or use of, a destructive device or explosive by any of the following: (1) Any peace officer list
• § 189 — (a) All murder that is perpetrated by means of a destructive device or explosive, a weapon of mass destruction, knowing use of ammunition designed primarily to penetrate metal or armor, poison, lying
• § 189.1 — (a) The Legislature finds and declares that all unlawful killings that are willful, deliberate, and premeditated and in which the victim was a peace officer, as defined in Section 830, who was killed
• § 189.5 — (a) Upon a trial for murder, the commission of the homicide by the defendant being proved, the burden of proving circumstances of mitigation, or that justify or excuse it, devolves upon the defendant,
• § 18900 — (a) Every dealer, manufacturer, importer, and exporter of any destructive device, or any motion picture or television studio using destructive devices in the conduct of its business, shall obtain a pe
• § 18905 — (a) Each applicant for a permit under this article shall pay at the time of filing the application a fee not to exceed the application processing costs of the Department of Justice.
• § 18910 — (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), the Department of Justice shall, for every person, firm, or corporation to whom a permit is issued under this article, annually conduct an inspection for sec
• § 19 — Except in cases where a different punishment is prescribed by any law of this state, every offense declared to be a misdemeanor is punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six month
• § 19.2 — In no case shall any person sentenced to confinement in a county or city jail, or in a county or joint county penal farm, road camp, work camp, or other county adult detention facility, or committed t
• § 19.4 — When an act or omission is declared by a statute to be a public offense and no penalty for the offense is prescribed in any statute, the act or omission is punishable as a misdemeanor.
• § 19.6 — An infraction is not punishable by imprisonment.
• § 19.7 — Except as otherwise provided by law, all provisions of law relating to misdemeanors shall apply to infractions including, but not limited to, powers of peace officers, jurisdiction of courts, periods
• § 19.8 — (a) (1) The following offenses are subject to subdivision (d) of Section 17: (A) Sections 193.
• § 19.9 — For purposes of this code, “mandatory supervision” shall mean the portion of a defendant’s sentenced term during which time he or she is supervised by the county probation officer pursuant to subparag
• § 190 — (a) Every person guilty of murder in the first degree shall be punished by death, imprisonment in the state prison for life without the possibility of parole, or imprisonment in the state prison for a
• § 190.03 — (a) A person who commits first-degree murder that is a hate crime shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for life without the possibility of parole.
• § 190.05 — (a) The penalty for a defendant found guilty of murder in the second degree, who has served a prior prison term for murder in the first or second degree, shall be confinement in the state prison for a
• § 190.1 — A case in which the death penalty may be imposed pursuant to this chapter shall be tried in separate phases as follows: (a) The question of the defendant’s guilt shall be first determined.
• § 190.2 — (a) The penalty for a defendant who is found guilty of murder in the first degree is death or imprisonment in the state prison for life without the possibility of parole if one or more of the followin
• § 190.25 — (a) The penalty for a defendant found guilty of murder in the first degree shall be confinement in state prison for a term of life without the possibility of parole in any case in which any of the fol
• § 190.3 — If the defendant has been found guilty of murder in the first degree, and a special circumstance has been charged and found to be true, or if the defendant may be subject to the death penalty after ha
• § 190.4 — (a) Whenever special circumstances as enumerated in Section 190.
• § 190.41 — Notwithstanding Section 190.
• § 190.5 — (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the death penalty shall not be imposed upon any person who is under the age of 18 at the time of the commission of the crime.
• § 190.6 — (a) The Legislature finds that the sentence in all capital cases should be imposed expeditiously.
• § 190.7 — (a) The “entire record” referred to in Section 190.
• § 190.8 — (a) In any case in which a death sentence has been imposed, the record on appeal shall be expeditiously certified in two stages, the first for completeness and the second for accuracy, as provided by
• § 190.9 — (a) (1) In any case in which a death sentence may be imposed, all proceedings conducted in the superior court, including all conferences and proceedings, whether in open court, in conference in the co
• § 19000 — (a) Possession of any destructive device in violation of this chapter is a public nuisance.
• § 191 — The rules of the common law, distinguishing the killing of a master by his servant, and of a husband by his wife, as petit treason, are abolished, and these offenses are homicides, punishable in the m
• § 191.5 — (a) Gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated is the unlawful killing of a human being without malice aforethought, in the driving of a vehicle, where the driving was in violation of Section 2314
• § 19100 — Except as provided in Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 17700) of Division 2, any person in this state who carries concealed upon the person any explosive substance, other than fixed ammunition, is p
• § 19190 — The unlawful concealed carrying upon the person of any explosive substance other than fixed ammunition, as provided in Section 19100, is a nuisance and is subject to Sections 18000 and 18005.
• § 192 — Manslaughter is the unlawful killing of a human being without malice.
• § 192.5 — Vehicular manslaughter pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 191.
• § 19200 — (a) Except as provided in Section 19205 and Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 17700) of Division 2, any person in this state who manufactures or causes to be manufactured, imports into the state, kee
• § 19205 — Section 19200 does not apply to any plastic toy handgrenade, or any metal military practice handgrenade or metal replica handgrenade that is a relic, curio, memorabilia, or display item, that is fille
• § 19290 — Except as provided in Section 19205 and in Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 17700) of Division 2, any metal military practice handgrenade or metal replica handgrenade is a nuisance and is subject to
• § 193 — (a) Voluntary manslaughter is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for 3, 6, or 11 years.
• § 193.5 — Manslaughter committed during the operation of a vessel is punishable as follows: (a) A violation of subdivision (a) of Section 192.
• § 193.7 — A person convicted of a violation of subdivision (b) of Section 191.
• § 193.8 — (a) An adult, who is the registered owner of a motor vehicle or in possession of a motor vehicle, shall not relinquish possession of the vehicle to a minor for the purpose of driving if the following
• § 194 — To make the killing either murder or manslaughter, it is not requisite that the party die within three years and a day after the stroke received or the cause of death administered.
• § 19400 — A person who is a peace officer or a custodial officer, as defined in Chapter 4.
• § 19405 — Any person who sells a less lethal weapon to a person under the age of 18 years is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment in the county jail for up to six months or by a fine of not more
• § 195 — Homicide is excusable in the following cases: 1.
• § 196 — Homicide is justifiable when committed by peace officers and those acting by their command in their aid and assistance, under either of the following circumstances: (a) In obedience to any judgment of
• § 197 — Homicide is also justifiable when committed by any person in any of the following cases: (1) When resisting any attempt to murder any person, or to commit a felony, or to do some great bodily injury u
• § 198 — A bare fear of the commission of any of the offenses mentioned in subdivisions 2 and 3 of Section 197, to prevent which homicide may be lawfully committed, is not sufficient to justify it.
• § 198.5 — Any person using force intended or likely to cause death or great bodily injury within his or her residence shall be presumed to have held a reasonable fear of imminent peril of death or great bodily
• § 199 — The homicide appearing to be justifiable or excusable, the person indicted must, upon his trial, be fully acquitted and discharged.
• § 19910 — Every person who sells any BB device to a minor is guilty of a misdemeanor.
• § 19915 — (a) Every person who furnishes any BB device to any minor, without the express or implied permission of a parent or legal guardian of the minor, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
• § 2 — This Code takes effect at twelve o'clock, noon, on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and seventy-three.
• § 20 — In every crime or public offense there must exist a union, or joint operation of act and intent, or criminal negligence.
• § 2000 — There is and shall continue to be a State prison to be known as the California Institution for Men.
• § 2001 — The California Institution for Men shall be located at Chino, San Bernardino County, California.
• § 20010 — Any person who knowingly manufactures, sells, offers for sale, possesses, or uses a blowgun or blowgun ammunition in this state is guilty of a misdemeanor.
• § 20015 — Nothing in this division shall prohibit the sale to, purchase by, possession of, or use of any blowgun or blowgun ammunition by zookeepers, animal control officers, Department of Fish and Game personn
• § 2002 — The primary purpose of the California Institution for Men shall be for the imprisonment of male offenders who, in the opinion of the department, seem capable of moral rehabilitation and restoration to
• § 20110 — (a) Except as provided in Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 18710) of Division 5 of Title 2, any person who assembles, maintains, places, or causes to be placed a boobytrap device is guilty of a felo
• § 20150 — (a) Any person who changes, alters, removes, or obliterates any coloration or markings that are required by any applicable state or federal law or regulation, for any imitation firearm, or any device
• § 20155 — Any manufacturer, importer, or distributor of toy, look-alike, or imitation firearms that fails to comply with any applicable federal law or regulation governing the marking of a toy, look-alike, or i
• § 20160 — (a) Any imitation firearm manufactured after July 1, 2005, shall, at the time of offer for sale in this state, be accompanied by a conspicuous advisory in writing as part of the packaging, but not nec
• § 20165 — (a) Any person who, for commercial purposes, purchases, sells, manufactures, ships, transports, distributes, or receives, by mail order or in any other manner, an imitation firearm, except as authoriz
• § 20170 — (a) No person may openly display or expose any imitation firearm in a public place.
• § 20175 — Section 20170 does not apply in any of the following circumstances: (a) The imitation firearm is packaged or concealed so that it is not subject to public viewing.
• § 20180 — (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), violation of Section 20170 is an infraction punishable by a fine of one hundred dollars ($100) for the first offense, and three hundred dollars ($300) for a
• § 2020 — There is and shall continue to be a state prison known as the San Quentin Rehabilitation Center.
• § 20200 — A knife carried in a sheath that is worn openly suspended from the waist of the wearer is not concealed within the meaning of Section 16140, 16340, 17350, or 21310.
• § 2021 — The San Quentin Rehabilitation Center shall be located at San Quentin in the County of Marin.
• § 2022 — The primary purpose of the San Quentin Rehabilitation Center shall be to provide humane confinement, rehabilitation and education programming, restorative justice, industrial and other training, treat
• § 203 — Every person who unlawfully and maliciously deprives a human being of a member of his body, or disables, disfigures, or renders it useless, or cuts or disables the tongue, or puts out an eye, or slits
• § 2030 — There is and shall continue to be a State prison to be known as the California State Prison at Folsom.
• § 2031 — The California State Prison at Folsom shall be located at Folsom, in Sacramento County, California.
• § 20310 — Except as provided in Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 17700) of Division 2 of Title 2, any person in this state who manufactures or causes to be manufactured, imports into the state, keeps for sale
• § 2032 — The primary purpose of the California State Prison at Folsom shall be to provide confinement, industrial and other training, treatment, and care to persons confined therein.
• § 20390 — Except as provided in Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 17700) of Division 2 of Title 2, any air gauge knife is a nuisance and is subject to Section 18010.
• § 204 — Mayhem is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for two, four, or eight years.
• § 20410 — Except as provided in Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 17700) of Division 2 of Title 2, any person in this state who manufactures or causes to be manufactured, imports into the state, keeps for sale
• § 2045 — The Director of Corrections with the approval of the Board of Corrections, is authorized to establish a State prison for the confinement of males under the custody of the Director of Corrections.
• § 2045.1 — The prison authorized to be established by Section 2045 shall be a medium security type institution.
• § 2045.10 — The Director of Corrections is authorized to construct and establish a state prison for the confinement of males under the custody of the Director of Corrections.
• § 2045.11 — The facility authorized by Section 2045.
• § 2045.4 — The Governor, upon recommendation of the Director of Corrections, in accordance with Section 6050, shall appoint a warden for the California Training Facility.
• § 2045.5 — The Director of Corrections shall construct and equip in accordance with law, suitable buildings, structures and facilities for said institution.
• § 2045.6 — The provisions of Part 3 (commencing with Section 2000) apply to the institution and to the persons confined therein insofar as those provisions may be applicable.
• § 2046 — The Director of Corrections is authorized to establish a state prison for the confinement of males under the custody of the Director of Corrections.
• § 2046.1 — The prison authorized to be established by Section 2046 shall be a medium security type institution.
• § 2046.2 — Any person under the custody of the Director of Corrections may be transferred to the said prison in accordance with law.
• § 2046.4 — A warden for the said prison shall be appointed pursuant to Section 6050, and the Director of Corrections shall apoint, subject to civil service, such other officials and employees as may be necessary
• § 2046.5 — The Director of Corrections shall construct and equip in accordance with law, suitable buildings, structures, and facilities for the said prison.
• § 2046.6 — The provisions of this part shall apply to the prison and to the persons confined therein insofar as those provisions may be applicable.
• § 2048 — The Director of Corrections is authorized to establish a state prison for the confinement of males under the custody of the Director of Corrections, to be known as the California Correctional Institut
• § 2048.1 — The primary purpose of the prison authorized to be established by Section 2048 shall be to provide custody and care, and industrial, vocational, and other training to persons confined therein.
• § 2048.2 — Any person under the custody of the Director of Corrections may be transferred to the California Correctional Institution at Tehachapi in accordance with law.
• § 2048.4 — The warden for the California Correctional Institution at Tehachapi shall be appointed pursuant to Section 6050, and the Director of Corrections shall appoint, subject to civil service, those other of
• § 2048.5 — The Director of Corrections shall construct and equip, in accordance with law, suitable buildings, structures, and facilities for the California Correctional Institution at Tehachapi.
• § 2048.6 — The provisions of Part 3 (commencing with Section 2000) apply to the California Correctional Institution at Tehachapi and to the persons confined therein insofar as those provisions may be applicable.
• § 20490 — Except as provided in Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 17700) of Division 2 of Title 2, any belt buckle knife is a nuisance and is subject to Section 18010.
• § 205 — A person is guilty of aggravated mayhem when he or she unlawfully, under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to the physical or psychological well-being of another person, intentionally cau
• § 2051 — The department is hereby authorized to contract for provisions, clothing, medicines, forage, fuel, and all other staple supplies needed for the support of the prisons for any period of time, not excee
• § 20510 — Except as provided in Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 17700) of Division 2 of Title 2, any person in this state who manufactures or causes to be manufactured, imports into the state, keeps for sale
• § 2052 — (a) The department shall have power to contract for the supply of electricity, gas and water for the prisons, upon terms the department deems in the best interests of the state, or to manufacture gas
• § 2053 — (a) The Legislature finds and declares that there is a correlation between prisoners who are functionally literate and those who successfully reintegrate into society upon release.
• § 2053.1 — (a) The Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall implement in every state prison literacy programs that are designed to ensure that upon parole inmates are able to achieve t
• § 2053.4 — The Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall appoint a Superintendent of Correctional Education, who shall oversee and administer all prison education programs.
• § 2053.5 — Consistent with the goals and priorities of the department, a career technical education program shall consider all of the following factors: (a) Whether the program aligns with the workforce needs of
• § 2054 — (a) The Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation may establish and maintain classes for inmates by utilizing personnel of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, or by e
• § 2054.2 — The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall determine and implement a system of incentives to increase inmate participation in, and completion of, academic and vocational education, consist
• § 2055 — The Director of Corrections may, in his discretion, from time to time insure any or all products produced at any prison or institution under the jurisdiction of the Director of Corrections, whether th
• § 2056 — If any of the shops or buildings in which convicts are employed require rebuilding or repair for any reason, they may be rebuilt or repaired immediately, under the direction of the California Correcti
• § 2057 — Counties are authorized to contract with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for the commitment to the department, of persons who have suffered a felony conviction.
• § 2059 — The department shall fix the compensation of its officers and employees, other than those of wardens and clerks, at a gross rate which shall include a cash allowance for board and lodging, but in no c
• § 20590 — Except as provided in Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 17700) of Division 2 of Title 2, any cane sword is a nuisance and is subject to Section 18010.
• § 206 — Every person who, with the intent to cause cruel or extreme pain and suffering for the purpose of revenge, extortion, persuasion, or for any sadistic purpose, inflicts great bodily injury as defined i
• § 206.1 — (a) Torture is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for a term of life.
• § 2060 — For the purposes of Sections 11009 and 11030 of the Government Code, the following constitute, among other proper purposes, state business for officers and employees of the department for which such o
• § 2061 — (a) The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall develop and implement, by January 15, 2008, a plan to address management deficiencies within the department.
• § 20610 — Except as provided in Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 17700) of Division 2 of Title 2, any person in this state who manufactures or causes to be manufactured, imports into the state, keeps for sale
• § 2062 — (a) The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall develop and implement a plan to obtain additional rehabilitation and treatment services for prison inmates and parolees.
• § 2063 — (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall regularly provide operational and fiscal information to the Legislature to allow it to better assess
• § 2064 — (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall regularly provide to the Legislature information on the outcomes of department operations and activi
• § 2064.1 — (a) On or before October 1 of each year, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall submit to the Legislature a report on the department’s efforts to respond to and prevent suicides and at
• § 2065 — (a) The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall complete all of the tasks associated with inmates granted medical parole pursuant to Section 3550 that are specified in this section.
• § 2066 — (a) Pursuant to Section 715 of the Military and Veterans Code, the Department of Veterans Affairs shall provide one employee, trained and accredited by the Department of Veterans Affairs, for every fi
• § 2067 — (a) As outlined in the Budget Act of 2018, it is anticipated that all California inmates will be returned from out-of-state contract correctional facilities by February 2019.
• § 2068 — (a) The department shall collect voluntary self-identification information pertaining to race or ethnic origin of people admitted, in custody, and released and paroled, which shall include, but not be
• § 20690 — Except as provided in Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 17700) of Division 2 of Title 2, any lipstick case knife is a nuisance and is subject to Section 18010.
• § 207 — (a) Every person who forcibly, or by any other means of instilling fear, steals or takes, or holds, detains, or arrests any person in this state, and carries the person into another country, state, or
• § 20710 — Except as provided in Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 17700) of Division 2 of Title 2, any person in this state who manufactures or causes to be manufactured, imports into the state, keeps for sale
• § 2078 — It shall be the duty of the department to prosecute all suits, at law or in equity, that may be necessary to protect the rights of the State in matters of property connected with the prisons and their
• § 20790 — Except as provided in Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 17700) of Division 2 of Title 2, any shobi-zue is a nuisance and is subject to Section 18010.
• § 208 — (a) Kidnapping is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for three, five, or eight years.
• § 2080 — A copy of the rules and regulations prescribing the duties and obligations of prisoners shall be furnished to each prisoner in a state prison or other facility under the jurisdiction of the Department
• § 2081 — The director shall cause to be kept at each institution a register of institution violations and what kind of punishments, if any, are administered to prisoners or inmates; the offense committed; the
• § 2081.5 — The Director of Corrections shall keep complete case records of all prisoners under custody of the department, which records shall be made available to the Board of Prison Terms at such times and in s
• § 20810 — (a) Any person in this state who commercially manufactures or causes to be commercially manufactured, or who knowingly imports into the state for commercial sale, or who knowingly exports out of this
• § 20815 — Section 20810 does not apply to the manufacture or importation of any undetectable knife for sale to a law enforcement or military entity with a valid agency, department, or unit purchase order, nor d
• § 2082 — The Director of Corrections shall within 30 days after receiving persons convicted of crime and sentenced to serve terms in the respective prisons under the jurisdiction of the Director of Corrections
• § 20820 — Section 20810 does not apply to the manufacture or importation of any undetectable knife for sale to a federal, state, or local historical society, museum, or institutional collection that is open to
• § 2084 — (a) The department shall provide each prisoner with a bed, sufficient covering of blankets, and with garments of substantial material and of distinctive manufacture, and with sufficient plain and whol
• § 2084.3 — (a) Incarcerated persons shall be permitted to shower at least every other day, unless access to a shower is prohibited as provided in subdivision (b).
• § 2084.5 — (a) A state prison or youth residential placement or detention center operated by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall provide persons in their custody and confined in a correctional
• § 2085 — The department shall keep a correct account of all money and valuables upon the prisoner when delivered at the prison, and shall pay the amount, or the proceeds thereof, or return the same to the pris
• § 2085.5 — (a) If a prisoner owes a restitution fine imposed pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 13967 of the Government Code, as operative prior to September 29, 1994, subdivision (b) of Section 730.
• § 2085.6 — (a) When a prisoner who owes a restitution fine, or any portion thereof, is subsequently released from the custody of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation or a county jail facility, and is
• § 2085.7 — (a) When a prisoner who owes a restitution fine, or any portion thereof, is released from the custody of a county jail facility after completion of a term in custody pursuant to subparagraph (A) of pa
• § 2085.8 — (a) Compensatory or punitive damages awarded by trial or settlement to any inmate, parolee, person placed on postrelease community supervision pursuant to Section 3451, or defendant on mandatory super
• § 2086 — The wardens may make temporary rules and regulations, in case of emergency, to remain in force until the department otherwise provides.
• § 2087 — The wardens shall perform such other duties as may be prescribed by the department.