The director may require persons committed to the authority to perform work necessary and proper to be done by the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, the Department of Water Resources, the Department of Parks and Recreation, and the Department of Fish and Game, by the Division of State Lands, by the United States Department of Agriculture, and by the federal officials and departments in charge of national forests and parks within this state. For the purposes of this section, the director, with the approval of the Department of General Services, may enter into contracts with federal and state officials and departments. All moneys received by the director pursuant to any of those contracts shall be paid into the State Treasury to the credit and in augmentation of the current appropriation for the support of the authority. The director may provide, from those moneys, for the payment of wages to the wards for work they do pursuant to any of those contracts, the wages to be paid into the Indemnity Fund created pursuant to § 13967 of the Government Code, or to the parents or dependents of the ward, or to the ward in the manner and in those proportions as the Department of the Youth Authority directs.

(Amended by Stats. 1992, Ch. 427, Sec. 178. Effective January 1, 1993.)