The department may provide for the payment of wages to wards for work performed pursuant to § 2816 of the Penal Code, the sums earned to be paid in reparation, or to the parents or dependents of the ward, or to the ward, in any manner and in any proportions that the department directs.

(Repealed and added by Stats. 2008, Ch. 116, Sec. 5. Effective January 1, 2009.)