California Penal Code

§ 243.15

PEN § 243.15 Effective Jan 1, 2016Title 8 · Part 1 · Ch. 9

Statute text

Every person confined in, sentenced to, or serving a sentence in, a city or county jail, industrial farm, or industrial road camp in this state, who commits a battery upon the person of any individual who is not himself or herself a person confined or sentenced therein, is guilty of a public offense and is subject to punishment by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170, or in a county jail for not more than one year.

Legislative history

Added by renumbering Section 4131.5 by Stats. 2015, Ch. 499, Sec. 4. (SB 795) Effective January 1, 2016.