California Government Code

§ 26605.7

GOV § 26605.7 Effective Jun 27, 2013Div. 2 · Title 3 · Part 3 · Ch. 2 · Art. 1

Statute text

(a)The sheriff, or his or her designee, after conferring with the physician who has oversight for providing medical care, or the physician’s designee, may request the court to grant medical probation or to resentence a prisoner to medical probation in lieu of jail time for any prisoner sentenced to a county jail under either of the following circumstances:

(1)The prisoner is physically incapacitated with a medical condition that renders the prisoner permanently unable to perform activities of basic daily living, which has resulted in the prisoner requiring 24-hour care, if that incapacitation did not exist at the time of sentencing.

(2)The prisoner would require acute long-term inpatient rehabilitation services.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2013, Ch. 23, Sec. 4. (AB 82) Effective June 27, 2013.