Cal. PEN § 4053
This is the official text of Cal. PEN § 4053, part of California’s Penal Code — defines crimes and sets criminal procedure in California.
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Official statutory text
The board of supervisors of any county may initiate proceedings proposing the creation of a joint district for the purpose of maintaining a joint county jail under the provisions of this chapter to be composed of two or more counties by the adoption of a resolution reciting the following:
(1) That it will be beneficial to the public interest to create a joint district for the establishment or operation, or both, of a joint county jail to which persons from any of the counties proposed to be included in the proposed district may be committed.
(2) The names of the counties proposed to be included in the proposed district which will be benefited by the formation thereof.
(3) That it is proposed to create a joint district for the establishment or operation, or both, of a joint county jail under the provisions of this chapter for the counties so named.
(1) That it will be beneficial to the public interest to create a joint district for the establishment or operation, or both, of a joint county jail to which persons from any of the counties proposed to be included in the proposed district may be committed.
(2) The names of the counties proposed to be included in the proposed district which will be benefited by the formation thereof.
(3) That it is proposed to create a joint district for the establishment or operation, or both, of a joint county jail under the provisions of this chapter for the counties so named.
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