California Government Code

§ 29551

GOV § 29551 Effective Sep 18, 2020Div. 3 · Title 3 · Ch. 2 · Art. 12

Statute text

(a)The board of supervisors or city council of any county, city and county, or city that opts to receive funds pursuant to Section 29552 shall establish a local detention facility revenue account, on behalf of the sheriff or the official responsible for local detention facilities in the county, city and county, or city, into which shall be deposited funds paid by the Controller, pursuant to Section 29552. The funds in the local detention facility revenue account shall be used exclusively for the purpose of operation, renovation, remodeling, or constructing local detention facilities and related equipment.

(b)(1) If an appropriation for the purposes specified in Section 29552 is made in any fiscal year, a county, city and county, or city, may charge a jail access fee to a local agency that exceeds the agency’s three-year average number of nonfelony bookings for crimes listed in paragraph (2) at a rate not to exceed the actual cost of booking an arrested person into the local detention facility, for each booking in excess of the three-year average. A local agency’s three-year average number of nonfelony bookings for crimes listed in paragraph (2) shall be recalculated each year. The jail access fee shall be calculated and paid on a monthly basis, and all revenue derived from the jail access fee shall be deposited into the local detention facility revenue account created pursuant to subdivision (a).

(2)Bookings for violations of each of the following shall be used to determine a local agency’s three-year average:

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Legislative history

Repealed (in Sec. 27) and added by Stats. 2020, Ch. 92, Sec. 28. (AB 1869) Effective September 18, 2020. Operative July 1, 2021, by its own provisions.