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Gov. Code, § 26776 · Article 8. Transportation of Prisoners

Gov. Code, § 26776

Verbatim from the official edition

Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)

The contract may provide, with respect to any situation in which, under the law, a sheriff is authorized to transport a prisoner from the sheriff’s own county to a point in another county, or is authorized to take a prisoner into custody in another county and transport him to the sheriff’s own county, that a sheriff of either of the contracting counties shall perform such function.

Notes and commentary — not statutory text

History

Added by Stats. 1963, Ch. 1138.

Source of truth

Edition
As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
Official file
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=GOV&sectionNum=26776.
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