§ 4000 The common jails in the several counties of this state are kept by …
§ 4000.5 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the sheriff of any county …
§ 4001 Each county jail must contain a sufficient number of rooms to allow …
§ 4001.1 (a) No law enforcement or correctional official shall give, …
§ 4001.2 (a) Each county jail shall, upon detention of a person, ask if …
§ 4002 (a) Persons committed on criminal process and detained for …
§ 4002.5 (a) On or before January 1, 2020, the sheriff of each county or …
§ 4003 Whenever any weapon or other personal property is taken from an …
§ 4004 A prisoner committed to the county jail for examination, or upon …
§ 4004.5 (a) A city may furnish facilities to be used for holding …
§ 4005 (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), the sheriff shall …
§ 4006 A sheriff, to whose custody a prisoner is committed as provided in …
§ 4006.5 (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a county board …
§ 4007 When there is no jail in the county, or when the jail becomes unfit …
§ 4008 A copy of the appointment, certified by the clerk of the court, must …
§ 4009 When a jail is erected in a county for the use of which the …
§ 4010 The clerk of the court must immediately serve a copy of the …
§ 4011 (a) When it is made to appear to any judge by affidavit of the …
§ 4011.1 (a) Notwithstanding Section 29602 of the Government Code and any …
§ 4011.2 A sheriff, chief or director of corrections, or chief of police shall …
§ 4011.3 (a) Notwithstanding Section 4011.1, a sheriff, chief or director …
§ 4011.5 (a) If a sheriff or jailer determines that a prisoner in a …
§ 4011.6 (a) If it appears to the person in charge of a county jail, city …
§ 4011.7 Notwithstanding the provisions of Sections 4011 and 4011.5, when it …
§ 4011.8 A person in custody who has been charged with or convicted of a …
§ 4011.9 Notwithstanding the provisions of Sections 4011 and 4011.5, when it …
§ 4011.10 v2 (a) It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this section …
§ 4011.11 (a) (1) Through December 31, 2022, the board of supervisors …
§ 4012 When a pestilence or contagious disease breaks out in or near a jail, …
§ 4013 (a) A warden, sheriff, or jailer upon whom a paper in a judicial …
§ 4014 The sheriff, when necessary, may, with the assent in writing of the …
§ 4015 (a) The sheriff shall receive all persons committed to jail by …
§ 4016 Whenever a person is committed upon process in a civil action or …
§ 4016.5 A city or county shall be reimbursed by the Department of Corrections …
§ 4017 All persons confined in the county jail, industrial farm, road camp, …
§ 4017.1 (a) (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), any person …
§ 4017.5 In any case in which a person is confined to a city or county jail …
§ 4018 The board of supervisors making such order may prescribe and enforce …
§ 4018.1 Subject to the availability of adequate state funding for these …
§ 4018.5 The sheriff or other official in charge of county correctional …
§ 4018.6 The sheriff of the county may authorize the temporary removal under …
§ 4019 (a) This section applies in all of the following …
§ 4019 v2 (a) This section applies in all of the following …
§ 4019.1 (a) Notwithstanding any other law, the sheriff or county …
§ 4019.2 (a) Notwithstanding any other law, any inmate sentenced to …
§ 4019.3 The board of supervisors may provide that each prisoner confined in …
§ 4019.4 (a) (1) In addition to credit awarded pursuant to Section …
§ 4019.5 (a) “Kangaroo court” as used in this section means a mock court …
§ 4020 Whenever the board of health of any city or county, or the board of …
§ 4020.4 In every county having a population of more than 275,000, there shall …
§ 4020.7 The duties and powers of the female deputy sheriff or other suitable …
§ 4020.8 No officer, deputy, jailer, keeper, guard, or person having charge or …
§ 4021 (a) Whenever any female prisoner or prisoners are confined in …
§ 4022 Whenever by the terms of this code, or of any other law of the state, …
§ 4023 Whenever the daily average of more than 100 persons are confined in …
§ 4023.5 (a) Any person confined in any local detention facility shall, …
§ 4023.6 (a) Any incarcerated person in any local detention facility …
§ 4023.8 (a) A person incarcerated in a county jail who is identified as …
§ 4024 (a) The sheriff may discharge any prisoner from the county jail …
§ 4024.1 (a) The sheriff, chief of police, or any other person …
§ 4024.2 (a) Notwithstanding any other law, the board of supervisors of …
§ 4024.3 (a) Notwithstanding any other law, the board of supervisors of …
§ 4024.4 (a) The board of supervisors of each county, with the …
§ 4024.5 (a) The rights established in this section apply to any person …
§ 4025 (a) The sheriff of each county may establish, maintain and …
§ 4025.5 (a) There is hereby created a program in the Counties of …
§ 4026 The sheriff or other officer in charge of a county or city jail may …
§ 4027 (a) (1) It is the intent of the Legislature that all …
§ 4027.5 (a) On or before January 1, 2025, the sheriff of each county or …
§ 4028 (a) A condition or restriction upon the obtaining of an abortion …
§ 4029 (a) Whenever within any county adult detention facility or part …
§ 4030 (a) (1) The Legislature finds and declares that law …
§ 4031 (a) This section applies to all minors detained in a juvenile …
§ 4032 (a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions …
§ 4033 (a) (1) The San Diego County Sheriff’s Department and the …

Terms Used In California Codes > Penal Code > Part 3 > Title 4 > Chapter 1 - County Jails

  • Abstract of judgment: In a federal criminal proceeding, A certification from a U.S. District Court clerk that a judgment of restitution was entered against the defendant owing to the victim. If the defendant inherits, owns, or sells real property or holdings, these assets can then be attached at the state and local levels as well.
  • Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
  • Airport and aviation purposes: means expenditures of a capital improvement nature, including the repair or replacement of a capital improvement, and expenditures for compatible land use planning in the area surrounding an airport, for any of the following purposes:

    California Public Utilities Code 21681

  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Arraignment: A proceeding in which an individual who is accused of committing a crime is brought into court, told of the charges, and asked to plead guilty or not guilty.
  • Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
  • Bail: Security given for the release of a criminal defendant or witness from legal custody (usually in the form of money) to secure his/her appearance on the day and time appointed.
  • City: includes city and county and "incorporated town" but does not include "unincorporated town" or "village. See California Public Utilities Code 19
  • Commission: means the Public Utilities Commission created by §. See California Public Utilities Code 20
  • Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • County: includes city and county. See California Public Utilities Code 18
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • daytime: means the period between sunrise and sunset, and the word "nighttime" means the period between sunset and sunrise. See California Penal Code 7
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • fund: shall be deemed to refer to the Aeronautics Account in the State Transportation Fund. See California Public Utilities Code 21680
  • General aviation: means all aviation except air carrier and military aviation. See California Public Utilities Code 21681
  • Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • knowingly: import s only a knowledge that the facts exist which bring the act or omission within the provisions of this code. See California Penal Code 7
  • Lawsuit: A legal action started by a plaintiff against a defendant based on a complaint that the defendant failed to perform a legal duty, resulting in harm to the plaintiff.
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • license: shall include a permit or a certificate issued by a state agency. See California Penal Code 23
  • Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
  • magistrate: signifies any one of the officers mentioned in Section 808. See California Penal Code 7
  • 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 subparagraph (B) of paragraph (5) of subdivision (h) of Section 1170. See California Penal Code 19.9
  • Matching funds: means money that is provided by the public entity and does not consist of funds previously received from state or federal agencies or public entity funds previously used to match federal or state funds. See California Public Utilities Code 21681
  • month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See California Penal Code 7
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Operation and maintenance: means expenditures for wages or salaries, utilities, service vehicles, and all other noncapital expenditures that are included in insurance, professional services, supplies, construction equipment, upkeep and landscaping, and other items of expenditure designated as "operation and maintenance" in rules and regulations adopted by the department. See California Public Utilities Code 21681
  • peace officer: signify any one of the officers mentioned in Chapter 4. See California Penal Code 7
  • Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
  • Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
  • Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
  • property: includes both real and personal property. See California Penal Code 7
  • Public agency: means the various agencies of the State of California and the federal government. See California Public Utilities Code 21681
  • Public entity: means any city, county, airport district, airport authority, port district, port authority, public district, public authority, political subdivision, airport land use commission, community services district, or public corporation and the University of California. See California Public Utilities Code 21681
  • Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
  • Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
  • spouse: includes "registered domestic partner" as required by §. See California Penal Code 7
  • State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Public Utilities Code 17
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
  • User fees: Fees charged to users of goods or services provided by the government. In levying or authorizing these fees, the legislature determines whether the revenue should go into the treasury or should be available to the agency providing the goods or services.
  • will: includes codicil. See California Penal Code 7
  • willfully: when applied to the intent with which an act is done or omitted, implies simply a purpose or willingness to commit the act, or make the omission referred to. See California Penal Code 7