Title WIC, California Welf. & Inst. Code

No payment received by, or for the benefit of any members of, an eligible household occupying an assisted unit under Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 50735) of Part 2 of Division 31 of the Health and Safety Code, shall be considered as income or resources to any recipient, incl…

To the extent federal financial participation is available, any state agency responsible for the administration of any program under this division may establish procedures for common eligibility determination for public social service programs that aid needy families to the exten…

The Authority is limited in its expenditures to funds specifically made available for its use. (Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 937.)

To the extent that necessary funds are available for the purposes the director may: (a) Establish and operate a treatment and training service and such other services as are proper for the discharge of his duties; (b) Create administrative districts suitable to the performance of…

(a) The director shall provide for the development and implementation of a disciplinary matrix with offenses and associated punishments applicable to all department employees, in order to ensure notice and consistency statewide. The disciplinary matrix shall take into account agg…

(a) The director may enter into contracts with the approval of the Director of Finance with any county of this state, upon request of the board of supervisors thereof, wherein the Division of Juvenile Justice agrees to furnish diagnosis and treatment services and temporary detent…

(a) The director may enter into contracts, with the approval of the Director of Finance, with any county of this state upon request of the board of supervisors thereof, wherein the Division of Juvenile Justice agrees to furnish temporary emergency detention facilities and necessa…

(a) The Chief of the Division of Juvenile Facilities, with approval of the Director of Finance, may enter into contracts with any county of this state for the Division of Juvenile Facilities to furnish housing to a ward who was in the custody of the Division of Juvenile Facilitie…

(a) The Division of Juvenile Justice, in partnership with the California Conservation Corps and participating certified local conservation corps, shall develop and establish a precorps transitional training program within the Division of Juvenile Justice. This program shall opera…

The director may, from any moneys made available for such purposes, allocate funds to local governmental and nongovernmental agencies to share in the cost of local correctional programs which are partially financed by federal grants. (Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 816.)

The director may establish and maintain at any institution or camp under his jurisdiction a canteen for the sale to persons confined therein of candy, nutritional snacks, toilet articles, sundries, and other articles. The canteen shall operate on a nonprofit basis. However, if sa…

The director may, with the approval of the Director of General Services, enter into contracts with colleges, universities, and other organizations for the purposes of research in the field of delinquency and crime prevention and of training special workers, including teachers, in…

The director may collect statistics and information regarding juvenile delinquency, crimes reported and discovered, arrests made, complaints, informations, and indictments filed and the disposition made thereof, pleas, convictions, acquittals, probations granted or denied, commit…

The Director of the Youth Authority may deposit any funds of wards committed to the authority in the director’s possession in trust with the Treasurer pursuant to Section 16305.3 of the Government Code or in trust in insured bank, savings and loan, or state or federal credit unio…

(a) It is the intent of the Legislature that wards of the Youth Authority be held accountable for intentional damage and destruction of public property committed while they are confined in Youth Authority facilities. To that end, and notwithstanding the provisions of Sections 175…

The Director of the Youth Authority may authorize the sale of articles of handiwork made by wards under the jurisdiction of the authority to the public at Youth Authority institutions, in public buildings, at fairs, or on property operated by nonprofit associations. The cost of a…

The Department of the Youth Authority, with the approval of the Director of General Services, may lease land at any institution under its jurisdiction, at a nominal rental, to any nonprofit or eleemosynary corporation. The terms of the lease shall require the corporation to const…

The director may, from time to time, and as often as occasion may require, but not to exceed two meetings in any one calendar year call into conference the probation officers of the several counties, or such of them as he may deem advisable, for the purpose of discussing the duti…

For the purpose of carrying out its duties, the department is authorized to make use of law enforcement, detention, probation, parole, medical, educational, correctional, segregative and other facilities, institutions and agencies, whether public or private, within the state. The…

(a) The Director of the Youth Authority may enter into agreements with any federal agency authorizing the use of the Youth Authority’s facilities and services for the confinement, care and treatment of persons otherwise not under its jurisdiction when suitable facilities and serv…

(a) The Director of the Youth Authority may enter into an agreement with a city, county, or city and county, to permit transfer of wards in the custody of the Director of the Youth Authority to an appropriate facility of the city, county, or city and county, if the official havin…

(a) Pursuant to Section 1753.3 the Director of the Youth Authority may enter into a long-term agreement not to exceed 20 years with a city, county, or city and county to place parole violators in a facility which is specially designed and built for the incarceration of parole vio…

In any case in which a ward of the Youth Authority is temporarily released from actual confinement in an institution of the authority and placed in a county hospital for purposes of delivery of her child, the authority may reimburse the county for the actual cost of services rend…

(a) Any female confined in a Department of the Youth Authority facility shall, upon her request, be allowed to continue to use materials necessary for (1) personal hygiene with regard to her menstrual cycle and reproductive system and (2) birth control measures as prescribed by h…

Nothing in this chapter shall be taken to give the Youth Authority Board or the director control over existing facilities, institutions or agencies; or to require them to serve the board or the director inconsistently with their functions, or with the authority of their officers,…

Public institutions and agencies are hereby required to accept and care for persons sent to them by the authority in the same manner as they would be required to do had such persons been committed by a court of criminal jurisdiction. (Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 937.)

Whenever any person under the jurisdiction of the Youth Authority, or any minor under the jurisdiction of the Department of Corrections, is in need of medical, surgical, or dental care, the Youth Authority or the Department of Corrections, as applicable, may authorize, upon the r…

The Department of the Youth Authority, in consultation with the State Department of Mental Health shall establish, by regulations adopted at the earliest possible date, but no later than December 31, 2001, standards and guidelines for the administration of psychotropic medication…

The Department of the Youth Authority may transfer to and cause to be confined in the medical facility, the Correctional Training Facility at Soledad, the California Institution for Women at Corona, the Medical Correctional Institution, the California Institution for Men, the Ric…

Notwithstanding any other law, if, in the opinion of the Chief Deputy Secretary for the Division of Juvenile Justice, the rehabilitation of a person with a mental health disorder or a developmental disability who is confined in a state correctional school may be expedited by trea…

The director may inspect all public institutions and agencies whose facilities he or she is authorized to utilize and all private institutions and agencies whose facilities he or she is using. Every institution or agency, whether public or private, is required to afford the direc…

Placement of a person by the authority in any institution or agency not operated by the authority, or the discharge of such person by such an institution or agency, shall not terminate the control of the authority over such person. (Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 937.)

No person placed in such an institution or under such an agency may be released by the institution or agency until after approval of the release by the authority, unless the institution or agency would have power under the law to release at its own discretion persons committed to…

The director is hereby authorized when necessary and when funds are available for these purposes to establish and operate any of the following: (a) Places for the detention, prior to examination and study, of all persons committed to the Youth Authority. (b) Places for examinatio…

(a) The wards housed in forestry camps established by the Department of the Youth Authority may be required to labor on the buildings and grounds of the camp, on the making of forest roads for fire prevention or firefighting, on forestation or reforestation of public lands, or on…

The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is hereby authorized to enter into contracts with counties to meet the intent of the Legislature expressed in Senate Bill 823 (Chapter 337 of the Statutes of 2020) and Assembly Bill 145 (Chapter 80 of the Statutes of 2021) that the…

(a) A ward or youth hand crew member placed at the Pine Grove Youth Conservation Camp pursuant to Section 730, Section 875, or Section 1760.45 shall be paid an hourly wage equal to seven dollars and twenty-five cents ($7.25) while assigned to an active fire incident. The wage rat…

The director may require persons committed to the authority to perform work necessary and proper to be done by the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, the Department of Water Resources, the Department of Parks and Recreation, and the Department of Fish and Game, by the Di…

The department may provide for the payment of wages to wards for work performed pursuant to Section 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 departm…

The director shall investigate, examine, and make reports upon adult and juvenile probation. The director may establish standards for the performance of probation duties, and upon request consult with and make investigations and recommendations to probation officers, probation co…

(a) The Department of the Youth Authority shall annually develop a population management and facilities master plan presenting projected population and strategies for treatment and housing of wards for the succeeding five-year period. This plan shall set forth the department’s st…

The Youth Authority shall establish policies for a background assessment of all persons committed to the Youth Authority in order to supplement the case history provided by the county which committed the person to it. (Repealed and added by Stats. 1988, Ch. 612, Sec. 2.)

(a) It is the intent of the Legislature that youth with a high school diploma or California high school equivalency certificate who are detained in, or committed to, a Division of Juvenile Justice facility shall have access to rigorous postsecondary academic and career technical …

The authority shall keep written records of all examinations and of the conclusions predicated thereon and of all orders concerning the disposition or treatment of every person subject to its control. After five years from the date on which the jurisdiction of the authority over …

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any of the following information in the possession of the Youth Authority regarding persons 16 years of age or older who were committed to the Youth Authority by a court of criminal jurisdiction, or who were committed to the Departm…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the director or his or her designee may release the information described in Section 1764 regarding a person committed to the Youth Authority by a juvenile court for an offense described in subdivision (a) of Section 676, to any member …