California

Penal Code

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

• § 3705 — If there is good reason to believe that a female against whom a judgment of death is rendered is pregnant, such proceedings must be had as are provided in Section 3701, except that instead of a jury,
• § 3706 — If it is found that the female is not pregnant, the warden must execute the judgment; if it is found that she is pregnant the warden must suspend the execution of the judgment, and transmit a certifie
• § 371 — An act which affects an entire community or neighborhood, or any considerable number of persons, as specified in the last section, is not less a nuisance because the extent of the annoyance or damage
• § 372 — Every person who maintains or commits any public nuisance, the punishment for which is not otherwise prescribed, or who willfully omits to perform any legal duty relating to the removal of a public nu
• § 372.5 — (a) Notwithstanding Section 372, if a defendant is sentenced for a violation of Section 370 based on a disposition negotiated between the defendant and the prosecution, or pursuant to an indicated sen
• § 372.7 — Local law enforcement or a local jurisdiction shall not bring or threaten a nuisance action pursuant to Section 372 or 373a against a business, or impose fines pursuant to Section 372 or 373a upon a b
• § 373a — Each person who maintains, permits, or allows a public nuisance to exist upon his or her property or premises, and each person occupying or leasing the property or premises of another who maintains, p
• § 374 — (a) Littering means the willful or negligent throwing, dropping, placing, depositing, or sweeping, or causing any such acts, of any waste matter on land or water in other than appropriate storage cont
• § 374.2 — (a) It is unlawful for any person to maliciously discharge, dump, release, place, drop, pour, or otherwise deposit, or to maliciously cause to be discharged, dumped, released, placed, dropped, poured,
• § 374.3 — (a) It is unlawful to dump or cause to be dumped waste matter in or upon a public or private highway or road, including any portion of the right-of-way thereof, or in or upon private property into or
• § 374.4 — (a) It is unlawful to litter or cause to be littered in or upon public or private property.
• § 374.5 — (a) It is unlawful for any grease waste hauler to do either of the following: (1) Reinsert, deposit, dump, place, release, or discharge into a grease trap, grease interceptor, manhole, cleanout, or ot
• § 374.7 — (a) A person who litters or causes to be littered, or dumps or causes to be dumped, waste matter into a bay, lagoon, channel, river, creek, slough, canal, lake, or reservoir, or other stream or body o
• § 374.8 — (a) In any prosecution under this section, proof of the elements of the offense shall not be dependent upon the requirements of Title 22 of the California Code of Regulations.
• § 374a — A person giving information leading to the arrest and conviction of a person for a violation of Section 374c, 374.
• § 374c — Every person who shoots any firearm from or upon a public road or highway is guilty of a misdemeanor.
• § 374d — Every person who knowingly allows the carcass of any dead animal which belonged to him at the time of its death to be put, or to remain, within 100 feet of any street, alley, public highway, or road i
• § 375 — (a) It shall be unlawful to throw, drop, pour, deposit, release, discharge or expose, or to attempt to throw, drop, pour, deposit, release, discharge or expose in, upon or about any theater, restauran
• § 377 — Every person who, in order to obtain for himself or another any drug that can be lawfully dispensed by a pharmacist only on prescription, falsely represents himself to be a physician or other person w
• § 379 — Every person who sells, dispenses, distributes, furnishes, administers, gives, or offers to sell, dispense, distribute, furnish, administer, or give Salvia divinorum or Salvinorin A, or any substance
• § 38 — Misprision of treason is the knowledge and concealment of treason, without otherwise assenting to or participating in the crime.
• § 380 — (a) Every person who sells, dispenses or distributes toluene, or any substance or material containing toluene, to any person who is less than 18 years of age shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon
• § 381 — (a) Any person who possesses toluene or any substance or material containing toluene, including, but not limited to, glue, cement, dope, paint thinner, paint and any combination of hydrocarbons, eithe
• § 381a — Any person, or persons, whether as principals, agents, managers, or otherwise, who buy or sell dairy products, or deal in milk, cream or butter, and who buy or sell the same upon the basis of their ri
• § 381b — Any person who possesses nitrous oxide or any substance containing nitrous oxide, with the intent to breathe, inhale, or ingest for the purpose of causing a condition of intoxication, elation, euphori
• § 381c — (a) As used in this section, “nitrous oxide” refers to any of the following substances: N 2 O, dinitrogen monoxide, dinitrogen oxide, nitrogen oxide, or laughing gas.
• § 381d — (a) A person who dispenses or distributes nitrous oxide to a person, and knows or should know that the person is going to use the nitrous oxide in violation of Section 381b, and that person proximatel
• § 381e — (a) A person who dispenses or distributes nitrous oxide shall record each transaction involving the dispensing or distribution of nitrous oxide in a written or electronic document.
• § 382 — Every person who adulterates or dilutes any article of food, drink, drug, medicine, spirituous or malt liquor, or wine, or any article useful in compounding them, with the fraudulent intent to offer t
• § 382.4 — No person, other than a licensed veterinarian, shall administer succinylcholine, also known as sucostrin, to any dog or cat.
• § 382.5 — Every person who sells, dispenses, administers or prescribes dinitrophenol for any purpose shall be guilty of a felony, punishable by a fine not less than one thousand dollars ($1,000) nor more than t
• § 382.6 — Every person who sells, dispenses, administers or prescribes preparations containing diphenylamine, paraphenylenediamine, or paratoluylenediamine, or a derivative of any such chemicals, to be used as
• § 382.7 — Every person who knowingly prescribes, dispenses, administers, or furnishes any liquid silicone substance for the purpose of injection into a human breast or mammary is guilty of a misdemeanor.
• § 383 — Every person who knowingly sells, or keeps or offers for sale, or otherwise disposes of any article of food, drink, drug, or medicine, knowing that the same is adulterated or has become tainted, decay
• § 383a — Any person, firm, or corporation, who sells or offers for sale, or has in his or its possession for sale, any butter manufactured by boiling, melting, deodorizing, or renovating, which is the product
• § 383b — Every person who with intent to defraud, sells or exposes for sale any meat or meat preparations, and falsely represents the same to be kosher, whether such meat or meat preparations be raw or prepare
• § 383c — Every person who with intent to defraud, sells or exposes for sale any meat or meat preparations, and falsely represents the same to be halal, whether the meat or meat preparations is raw or prepared
• § 384 — (a) Any person who shall wilfully refuse to immediately relinquish a party line when informed that such line is needed for an emergency call, and in fact such line is needed for an emergency call, to
• § 384.5 — (a) (1) Any person who removes any minor forest products from the property where the products were cut and transports the products upon any public road or highway shall have in the person’s possession
• § 384a — (a) (1) A person shall not willfully or negligently cut, destroy, mutilate, or remove plant material that is growing upon state or county highway rights-of-way.
• § 384b — For the purposes of Sections 384c through 384f, inclusive, unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions contained in this section govern the construction of those sections.
• § 384c — Persons purchasing trees, shrubs, or boughs from harvesters thereof shall not transport more than five trees or more than five pounds of shrubs or boughs on the public roads or highways without obtain
• § 384d — Upon the filing of an application containing the information required by Section 384c, and the presentation of a permit or proof of ownership as required by Section 384c, the county sheriff’s office s
• § 384e — (a) The transportation tag described in Section 384d shall be presented to any peace officer upon demand.
• § 384f — Any person violating any of the provisions of Sections 384b through 384f shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars
• § 384h — Every person who willfully or negligently, while hunting upon the inclosed lands of another, kills, maims, or wounds an animal, the property of another, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
• § 384i — (a) Sections 384a to 384f, inclusive, shall not apply to maintenance and construction activities of public agencies and their employees.
• § 385 — (a) The term “high voltage” as used in this section means a voltage in excess of 750 volts, measured between conductors or measured between the conductor and the ground.
• § 386 — (a) Any person who willfully or maliciously constructs or maintains a fire-protection system in any structure with the intent to install a fire protection system which is known to be inoperable or to
• § 387 — (a) Any corporation, limited liability company, or person who is a manager with respect to a product, facility, equipment, process, place of employment, or business practice, is guilty of a public off
• § 395 — Every person who willfully makes or publishes any false statement, spreads any false rumor, or employs any other false or fraudulent means or device, with intent to affect the market price of any kind
• § 396 — (a) The Legislature hereby finds that during a state of emergency or local emergency, including, but not limited to, an earthquake, flood, fire, riot, storm, drought, plant or animal infestation or di
• § 396.5 — It shall be unlawful for any retail food store or wholesale food concern, as defined in Section 3(k) of the federal Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (Public Law 95-113) (7 U.
• § 397 — Every person who sells or furnishes, or causes to be sold or furnished, intoxicating liquors to any habitual or common drunkard, or to any person who has been adjudged legally incompetent or insane by
• § 398 — (a) If a person owning or having custody or control of an animal knows, or has reason to know, that the animal bit another person, he or she shall, as soon as is practicable, but no later than 48 hour
• § 399 — (a) If any person owning or having custody or control of a mischievous animal, knowing its propensities, willfully suffers it to go at large, or keeps it without ordinary care, and the animal, while s
• § 399.5 — (a) Any person owning or having custody or control of a dog trained to fight, attack, or kill is guilty of a felony or a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not to exceed one year
• § 4 — The rule of the common law, that penal statutes are to be strictly construed, has no application to this Code.
• § 4000 — The common jails in the several counties of this state are kept by the sheriffs of the counties in which they are respectively situated, and are used as follows: 1.
• § 4000.5 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the sheriff of any county may transfer prisoners committed to any jail of the county to any industrial road camp maintained by the county.
• § 4001 — Each county jail must contain a sufficient number of rooms to allow all persons belonging to either one of the following classes to be confined separately and distinctly from persons belonging to eith
• § 4001.1 — (a) No law enforcement or correctional official shall give, offer, or promise to give any monetary payment in excess of fifty dollars ($50) in return for an in-custody informant’s testimony in any cri
• § 4001.2 — (a) Each county jail shall, upon detention of a person, ask if the person has served in the United States military and document the person’s response.
• § 4002 — (a) Persons committed on criminal process and detained for trial, persons convicted and under sentence, and persons committed upon civil process, shall not be kept or put in the same room, nor shall m
• § 4002.5 — (a) On or before January 1, 2020, the sheriff of each county or the administrator of each county jail shall develop and implement an infant and toddler breast milk feeding policy for lactating inmates
• § 4003 — Whenever any weapon or other personal property is taken from an arrested person, it shall be the duty of the desk clerk or other proper officer of any city, county or city and county jail, to which su
• § 4004 — A prisoner committed to the county jail for examination, or upon conviction for a public offense, must be actually confined in the jail until legally discharged; and if the prisoner is permitted to go
• § 4004.5 — (a) A city may furnish facilities to be used for holding prisoners held for examination or during trial without cost to the county or upon such terms as may be agreed upon by the governing body of the
• § 4005 — (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), the sheriff shall receive, and keep in the county jail, any prisoner committed thereto by process or order issued under the authority of the United States, u
• § 4006 — A sheriff, to whose custody a prisoner is committed as provided in the last section, is answerable for his safekeeping in the courts of the United States, according to the laws thereof.
• § 4006.5 — (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a county board of supervisors or city council may enter into a contract with the federal government, or any department or agency thereof, to manage, con
• § 4007 — When there is no jail in the county, or when the jail becomes unfit or unsafe for the confinement of prisoners, the judge of the superior court may, by a written order filed with the clerk of the cour
• § 4008 — A copy of the appointment, certified by the clerk of the court, must be served on the sheriff or keeper of the jail designated, who must receive into the jail all prisoners authorized to be confined t
• § 4009 — When a jail is erected in a county for the use of which the designation was made, or its jail is rendered fit and safe for the confinement of prisoners, the judge of the superior court of that county
• § 401 — (a) Any person who deliberately aids, advises, or encourages another to commit suicide is guilty of a felony.
• § 4010 — The clerk of the court must immediately serve a copy of the revocation upon the sheriff of the county, who must thereupon remove the prisoners to the jail of the county from which the removal was had.
• § 4011 — (a) When it is made to appear to any judge by affidavit of the sheriff or other official in charge of county correctional facilities or district attorney and oral testimony that a prisoner confined in
• § 4011.1 — (a) Notwithstanding Section 29602 of the Government Code and any other provisions of this chapter, a county, city or the Department of the Youth Authority is authorized to make claim for and recovery
• § 4011.10 — (a) It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this section to provide county sheriffs, chiefs of police, and directors or administrators of local detention facilities with an incentive to not en
• § 4011.11 — (a) (1) Through December 31, 2022, the board of supervisors in each county, in consultation with the county sheriff, may designate an entity or entities to assist county jail inmates with submitting a
• § 4011.2 — A sheriff, chief or director of corrections, or chief of police shall not charge a fee for an inmate-initiated medical visit of an inmate confined in a county or city jail.
• § 4011.3 — (a) Notwithstanding Section 4011.
• § 4011.5 — (a) If a sheriff or jailer determines that a prisoner in a county jail or a city jail under his or her charge is in need of immediate medical or hospital care, and that the health and welfare of the p
• § 4011.6 — (a) (1) If it appears to the person in charge of a county jail, city jail, or juvenile detention facility, or to any judge of a court in the county in which the jail or juvenile detention facility is
• § 4011.7 — Notwithstanding the provisions of Sections 4011 and 4011.
• § 4011.8 — A person in custody who has been charged with or convicted of a criminal offense may make voluntary application for inpatient or outpatient mental health services in accordance with Section 5003 of th
• § 4011.9 — Notwithstanding the provisions of Sections 4011 and 4011.
• § 4012 — When a pestilence or contagious disease breaks out in or near a jail, and the physician thereof certifies that it is liable to endanger the health of the prisoners, the county judge may, by a written
• § 4013 — (a) A warden, sheriff, or jailer upon whom a paper in a judicial proceeding, directed to an incarcerated person in the custody of the warden, sheriff, or jailer, is served, shall forthwith deliver the
• § 4014 — The sheriff, when necessary, may, with the assent in writing of the county judge, or in a city, of the mayor thereof, employ a temporary guard for the protection of the county jail, or for the safekee
• § 4015 — (a) The sheriff shall receive all persons committed to jail by competent authority.
• § 4016 — Whenever a person is committed upon process in a civil action or proceeding, except when the people of this State are a party thereto, the sheriff is not bound to receive such person, unless security
• § 4016.5 — A city or county shall be reimbursed by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for costs incurred resulting from the detention of a state prisoner or a person sentenced or referred to the st
• § 4017 — All persons confined in the county jail, industrial farm, road camp, or city jail under a final judgment of imprisonment rendered in a criminal action or proceeding and all persons confined in the cou
• § 4017.1 — (a) (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), any person confined in a county jail, industrial farm, road camp, or city jail who is required or permitted by an order of the board of supervisors or city
• § 4017.5 — In any case in which a person is confined to a city or county jail for a definite period of time for contempt pursuant to an action or proceeding other than a criminal action or proceeding, all of the
• § 4018 — The board of supervisors making such order may prescribe and enforce the rules and regulations under which such labor is to be performed; and provide clothing of such a distinctive character for said
• § 4018.1 — Subject to the availability of adequate state funding for these purposes, the sheriff of each county shall provide inmates who have been sentenced for drug-related offenses with information about beha
• § 4018.5 — The sheriff or other official in charge of county correctional facilities may, subject to the approval of the board of supervisors, provide for the vocational training and rehabilitation of prisoners
• § 4018.6 — The sheriff of the county may authorize the temporary removal under custody or temporary release without custody of any inmate of the county jail, honor farm, or other detention facility for family em
• § 4019 — (a) This section applies in all of the following cases: (1) When a prisoner is confined in or committed to a county jail, industrial farm, or road camp or a city jail, industrial farm, or road camp, i
• § 4019.1 — (a) Notwithstanding any other law, the sheriff or county director of corrections may, at his or her discretion, award additional time credits to any inmate sentenced to the county jail who participate
• § 4019.2 — (a) Notwithstanding any other law, any inmate sentenced to county jail assigned to a conservation camp by a sheriff and who is eligible to earn one day of credit for every one day of incarceration pur
• § 4019.3 — The board of supervisors may credit each prisoner with a sum of money to be determined by the board if the prisoner is confined in or committed to a county jail and performs a work assignment.
• § 4019.4 — (a) (1) In addition to credit awarded pursuant to Section 4019, a sheriff or county director of corrections may also award an inmate program credit reductions from his or her term of confinement as pr
• § 4019.5 — (a) “Kangaroo court” as used in this section means a mock court conducted by any prisoner or group of prisoners for the purpose of inflicting punishment upon any fellow prisoner in any prison, jail, j
• § 402 — (a) (1) Every person who goes to the scene of an emergency, or stops at the scene of an emergency, for the purpose of viewing the scene or the activities of police officers, firefighters, emergency me
• § 4020 — Whenever the board of health of any city or county, or the board of supervisors of any county, or the county physician of any county of this State, presents, or causes to be presented to the sheriff,
• § 4020.4 — In every county having a population of more than 275,000, there shall be a female deputy sheriff in charge of female prisoners.
• § 4020.7 — The duties and powers of the female deputy sheriff or other suitable woman assigned to jail duty shall be as follows: (a) She shall have free access at all reasonable times to the immediate presence o
• § 4020.8 — No officer, deputy, jailer, keeper, guard, or person having charge or control of any such county jail shall refuse the duly appointed and qualified female deputy sheriff thereof, or other suitable wom
• § 4021 — (a) Whenever any female prisoner or prisoners are confined in any local detention facility in the state there shall be an appropriately trained female custodial person assigned, available, and accessi
• § 4022 — Whenever by the terms of this code, or of any other law of the state, it is provided that a prisoner shall be confined in any county jail, such provision shall be construed to authorize any prisoner c
• § 4023 — Whenever the daily average of more than 100 persons are confined in any county or city jail there shall be available at all times a duly licensed and practicing physician for the care and treatment of
• § 4023.5 — (a) A person confined in a local detention facility shall be allowed to continue to use materials necessary for personal hygiene with regard to their menstrual cycle and reproductive system, including
• § 4023.6 — (a) Any incarcerated person in any local detention facility shall have the right to summon and receive the services of any physician, nurse practitioner, certified nurse midwife, or physician assistan
• § 4023.8 — (a) A person incarcerated in a county jail who is identified as possibly pregnant or capable of becoming pregnant during an intake health examination or at any time during incarceration shall be offer
• § 4024 — (a) The sheriff may discharge any prisoner from the county jail at such time on the last day such prisoner may be confined as the sheriff shall consider to be in the best interests of the prisoner.
• § 4024.1 — (a) The sheriff, chief of police, or any other person responsible for a county or city jail may apply to the presiding judge of the superior court to receive general authorization for a period of 30 d
• § 4024.2 — (a) Notwithstanding any other law, the board of supervisors of any county may authorize the sheriff or other official in charge of county correctional facilities to offer a voluntary program under whi
• § 4024.3 — (a) Notwithstanding any other law, the board of supervisors of any county in which the average daily inmate population is 90 percent of the county’s correctional system’s mandated capacity may authori
• § 4024.4 — (a) The board of supervisors of each county, with the concurrence of the county sheriff before implementation, and the city council of each city, with the concurrence of the chief of police before imp
• § 4024.5 — (a) The rights established in this section apply to any person being released from a county jail, including, but not limited to, a person who has completed a sentence served, has been ordered by the c
• § 4025 — (a) The sheriff of each county may establish, maintain and operate a store in connection with the county jail and for this purpose may purchase confectionery, tobacco and tobacco users’ supplies, post
• § 4025.5 — (a) There is hereby created a program in the Counties of Alameda, Kern, Los Angeles, Marin, Napa, Orange, Sacramento, San Bernardino, San Francisco, San Diego, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Santa Cl
• § 4026 — The sheriff or other officer in charge of a county or city jail may provide for the manufacture of small articles of handiwork by prisoners out of raw materials purchased by the prisoners with their o
• § 4027 — (a) (1) It is the intent of the Legislature that all prisoners confined in local detention facilities shall be afforded reasonable opportunities to exercise religious freedom.
• § 4027.5 — (a) On or before January 1, 2025, the sheriff of each county or the administrator of each local detention facility shall develop and implement a religious grooming, clothing, and headwear policy for i
• § 4028 — (a) A condition or restriction shall not be imposed upon the obtaining of an abortion by a person detained in any local detention facility, pursuant to Sections 1 and 1.
• § 4029 — (a) Whenever within any county adult detention facility or part of any county detention facility used for the confinement of adults, not including any city jail, any facility, including but not limite
• § 402a — Every person who adulterates candy by using in its manufacture terra alba or other deleterious substances, or who sells or keeps for sale any candy or candies adulterated with terra alba, or any other
• § 402b — Any person who discards or abandons or leaves in any place accessible to children any refrigerator, icebox, deep-freeze locker, clothes dryer, washing machine, or other appliance, having a capacity of
• § 402c — On and after January 1, 1970, any person who sells a new refrigerator, icebox, or deep-freeze locker not equipped with an integral lock in this state, having a capacity of two cubic feet or more, whic
• § 403 — Every person who, without authority of law, willfully disturbs or breaks up any assembly or meeting that is not unlawful in its character, other than an assembly or meeting referred to in Section 302
• § 4030 — (a) (1) The Legislature finds and declares that law enforcement policies and practices for conducting strip or body cavity searches of detained persons vary widely throughout California.
• § 4031 — (a) This section applies to all minors detained in a juvenile detention center on the grounds that he or she is a person described in Section 300, 601, or 602 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, and
• § 4032 — (a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions shall apply: (1) “In-person visit” means an on-site visit that may include barriers.
• § 4032.5 — (a) This section shall be known, and may be cited, as Wakiesha’s Law.
• § 4033 — (a) (1) The San Diego County Sheriff’s Department and the Department of Motor Vehicles may implement a pilot program to provide an identification card for eligible incarcerated persons, as defined und
• § 404 — (a) Any use of force or violence, disturbing the public peace, or any threat to use force or violence, if accompanied by immediate power of execution, by two or more persons acting together, and witho
• § 404.6 — (a) Every person who with the intent to cause a riot does an act or engages in conduct that urges a riot, or urges others to commit acts of force or violence, or the burning or destroying of property,
• § 405 — Every person who participates in any riot is punishable by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
• § 4050 — This chapter may be cited as the Joint County Jail Act.
• § 4051 — Any two or more counties may form a district for the purpose of establishing and operating a joint county jail to serve such counties.
• § 4052 — Any district organized under this chapter shall have and exercise the powers expressly granted in this chapter, together with such other powers as are reasonably implied therefrom and necessary and pr
• § 4053 — The board of supervisors of any county may initiate proceedings proposing the creation of a joint district for the purpose of maintaining a joint county jail under the provisions of this chapter to be
• § 4054 — When adopted, certified copies of the resolution provided for in Section 4053, shall be transmitted to the several clerks of the boards of supervisors in each of the counties named in the resolution o
• § 4055 — Upon receipt of the resolution adopted under Section 4053, the boards of supervisors of the counties affected and to whom the same may be directed shall consider the advisability of creating and organ
• § 4056 — The board of supervisors of any county initiating proceedings for the creation of a joint district under this chapter shall, after the receipt of a copy of the resolution approving the proposal to for
• § 4057 — All districts organized under this chapter shall be numbered in the order of their creation, the number to be assigned to said district forthwith upon the organization thereof by the Secretary of Stat
• § 4058 — The Secretary of State shall furnish and transmit to the clerk of the board of supervisors of the county adopting the initial resolution for the organization of any district under this chapter a certi
• § 4059 — The body formed under Section 4058 shall be called the board of directors of such district.
• § 405a — A person who participates in the taking by means of a riot of another person from the lawful custody of a peace officer is guilty of a felony, punishable by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of
• § 406 — Whenever two or more persons, assembled and acting together, make any attempt or advance toward the commission of an act which would be a riot if actually committed, such assembly is a rout.
• § 4060 — The members of the board of directors may enter into an agreement for and on behalf of the counties appointing them binding said counties to the joint enterprise provided for in this chapter and appor
• § 4061 — All sums found due from any county according to the provisions of this chapter are a charge against said county, and may be collected in the manner provided by law by the board of directors of a distr
• § 4062 — The board of directors may establish the joint county jail provided for in this chapter and shall provide for the feeding, care, and treatment of prisoners therein, and must conform to such standards
• § 4063 — Each county in a district formed under this chapter shall pay from its general fund its proportionate share to the board of directors of such amount as the board may designate to constitute a cash rev
• § 4064 — Convicted persons may be committed to a joint county jail from a county comprising the district the same as if the commitment were to a jail maintained by that county alone.
• § 4065 — The provisions of Chapter 1 (commencing at Section 4000) of this title shall, so far as appropriate, be applicable to a joint county jail established pursuant to this chapter, and the person appointed
• § 4066 — The board of directors may make rules and regulations for the government of a joint county jail not inconsistent with law.
• § 4067 — A joint county jail district formed under this chapter may be dissolved in the following manner: (a) The board or boards of supervisors of a county or counties containing more than fifty percent (50%)
• § 407 — Whenever two or more persons assemble together to do an unlawful act, or do a lawful act in a violent, boisterous, or tumultuous manner, such assembly is an unlawful assembly.
• § 408 — Every person who participates in any rout or unlawful assembly is guilty of a misdemeanor.
• § 409 — Every person remaining present at the place of any riot, rout, or unlawful assembly, after the same has been lawfully warned to disperse, except public officers and persons assisting them in attemptin
• § 409.3 — Whenever law enforcement officers and emergency medical technicians are at the scene of an accident, management of the scene of the accident shall be vested in the appropriate law enforcement agency,
• § 409.5 — (a) When a menace to the public health or safety is created by a calamity including a flood, storm, fire, earthquake, explosion, accident, or other disaster, officers of the Department of the Californ
• § 409.6 — (a) Whenever a menace to the public health or safety is created by an avalanche, officers of the Department of the California Highway Patrol, police departments, or sheriff’s offices, any officer or e
• § 409.7 — (a) If peace officers, as defined in Chapter 4.
• § 410 — If a magistrate or officer, having notice of an unlawful or riotous assembly, mentioned in this Chapter, neglects to proceed to the place of assembly, or as near thereto as he can with safety, and to
• § 4100 — It is the purpose of this article to make possible the substitution of constructive labor for profitless prison confinement in order that those who are charged with or convicted of public offenses and
• § 4101 — In each county an industrial farm or industrial road camp may be established under the provisions of this article.
• § 4102 — Before establishing an industrial farm or industrial road camp in any county the board of supervisors thereof shall adopt a resolution of its intention so to do.
• § 4103 — Upon receipt of the resolution as provided in Section 4102, the legislative body of any incorporated city wishing to avail itself of the use of a proposed industrial farm shall adopt a resolution sett
• § 4104 — Any board of supervisors having adopted a resolution of intention to establish an industrial farm or industrial road camp shall ascertain and enter in its minutes the following facts: (a) The number o
• § 4105 — Upon ascertaining the facts provided for in Sections 4102 to 4104, inclusive, the board of supervisors may proceed to establish an industrial farm or industrial road camp.
• § 4106 — For the purpose of establishing an industrial farm the board of supervisors may acquire by condemnation, purchase, lease or donation as many acres of land suitable for agriculture as may be necessary
• § 4107 — The board of supervisors shall secure by purchase or otherwise personal property convenient or necessary to carry out the purposes of this article.
• § 4108 — The board of supervisors shall employ a superintendent of an industrial farm or camp and such other subordinate persons as may be necessary for the proper administration thereof and the keeping of the
• § 4109 — The board shall also adopt rules governing the administration of a farm or camp formed under the provisions of this article and discipline thereon in furtherance of the purposes of this article, which
• § 4110 — If women are to be sentenced to an industrial farm, the board of supervisors establishing it shall provide thereon separate quarters for women prisoners, or may establish a separate industrial farm fo
• § 4111 — If a separate farm for women prisoners is established it shall be considered as a part of the industrial farm of the county within the meaning of all provisions of this article, except that none but w
• § 4112 — When land has been acquired and such buildings and structures erected and improvements made as may be immediately necessary for the carrying out of the purposes of this article or arrangements have be
• § 4114 — Each county which establishes an industrial farm or camp shall provide a county classification committee, which shall function as follows: (1) The sheriff shall appoint the members of this committee,
• § 4115 — The county jail shall serve as the initial place of detention for all adult persons committed to the custody of the sheriff, except city prisoners who are transferred to a farm or camp by the county c
• § 4115.5 — (a) The board of supervisors of a county where adequate facilities are not available for prisoners who would otherwise be confined in its county adult detention facilities may enter into an agreement
• § 4115.55 — (a) Upon agreement with the sheriff or director of the county department of corrections, a board of supervisors may enter into a contract with other public agencies to provide housing for inmates sent
• § 4115.56 — (a) Upon agreement with the sheriff or director of the county department of corrections, a board of supervisors may enter into a contract with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to house
• § 4116 — No person shall be committed directly by any court to a county industrial farm or camp except as provided in the Welfare and Institutions Code.
• § 4117 — No person shall be transferred to an industrial farm or camp unless he has appeared before the county classification committee and has been assigned to that facility.
• § 4118 — The legislative body of any incorporated city located in a county which has established an industrial farm or industrial road camp may adopt and forward to the board of supervisors a certified copy of
• § 4119 — At its option the board of supervisors may adopt a resolution stating that the county will care for the prisoners of the city on its industrial farm or camp at the rate set forth in the city’s resolut
• § 412 — Any person, who, within this state, engages in, or instigates, aids, encourages, or does any act to further, a pugilistic contest, or fight, or ring or prize fight, or sparring or boxing exhibition, t
• § 4120 — Upon the expiration of the sentence of any person imprisoned in any industrial farm or camp, he shall be discharged, and either furnished with transportation to the place where he was convicted or giv
• § 4121 — The cost of establishing and maintaining an industrial farm or industrial road camp formed under this article shall be paid out of the county general fund.
• § 4122 — The cost of transporting city prisoners to an industrial farm or camp shall be borne by the city from whose courts they were committed.
• § 4123 — Any person transferred from an industrial farm or camp to the county jail shall be maintained at the jail at the expense of the county as are other prisoners in such jail.
• § 4124 — Each county board of supervisors may specify a rate to be charged for the care of city prisoners, which rate shall not exceed the average cost to the county of caring for one prisoner per day.
• § 4125 — Each person in custody on any industrial farm or industrial road camp who is found to have any person or persons dependent on him for support, as provided in Section 4127, shall be credited with a sum