California Penal Code 4496.02 – The Legislature finds and declares all of the …
The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:
(a) While the County Jail Capital Expenditure Bond Act of 1981, the County Jail Capital Expenditure Bond Act of 1984, and the County Correctional Facility Capital Expenditure Bond Act of 1986 have helped eliminate many of the critically overcrowded conditions found in county correctional facilities in the state, many problems remain.
Terms Used In California Penal Code 4496.02
- county: includes "city and county". See California Penal Code 7
- County correctional facilities: means county jail facilities, including separate facilities for the care of mentally ill inmates and persons arrested because of intoxication, but does not include county juvenile facilities. See California Penal Code 4496.04
- property: includes both real and personal property. See California Penal Code 7
- state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" may include the district and territories. See California Penal Code 7
(b) Numerous county jails and juvenile facilities throughout California are dilapidated and overcrowded.
(c) Capital improvements are necessary to protect life and safety of the persons confined or employed in jail facilities and to upgrade the health and sanitary conditions of those facilities.
(d) County jails are threatened with closure or the imposition of court supervision if health and safety deficiencies are not corrected immediately.
(e) Due to fiscal constraints associated with the loss of local property tax revenues, counties are unable to finance the construction of adequate jail and juvenile facilities.
(f) Local facilities for adults and juveniles are operating over capacity and the population of these facilities is still increasing. It is essential to the public safety that construction of new facilities proceed as expeditiously as possible to relieve overcrowding and to maintain public safety and security.
(Added by Stats. 1988, Ch. 264, Sec. 1. Approved in Proposition 86 at the November 8, 1988, election.)