Cal. PRC § 5008.4
This is the official text of Cal. PRC § 5008.4, part of California’s Public Resources Code — covers environmental protection, state parks, and natural resource management.
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Official statutory text
Moneys deposited in the State Parks and Recreation Fund pursuant to Section 1463.02 of the Penal Code are available, when appropriated by the Legislature, only for the following purposes:
(a) The payment of refunds of fines and forfeitures determined by the Controller to have been erroneously deposited in the fund.
(b) The training of department employees in the Ranger/Lifeguard classification, including, but not limited to, resource management and protection, law enforcement, interpretation, first aid, cardiopulmonary resuscitation and medical technical training, subject to all of the following:
(1) Reimbursement for training under the section shall not exceed the reimbursement rates of the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training, but reimbursements for salaries may be up to 100 percent of actual costs.
(2) Reimbursements for salaries shall be allocated to the assigned work locations of the employees receiving training to be used for salary or overtime payments for rangers and lifeguards assigned to those work locations.
(3) Expenditures under this subdivision in any fiscal year shall not exceed 90 percent of the moneys on deposit on June 30 of the preceding fiscal year.
(a) The payment of refunds of fines and forfeitures determined by the Controller to have been erroneously deposited in the fund.
(b) The training of department employees in the Ranger/Lifeguard classification, including, but not limited to, resource management and protection, law enforcement, interpretation, first aid, cardiopulmonary resuscitation and medical technical training, subject to all of the following:
(1) Reimbursement for training under the section shall not exceed the reimbursement rates of the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training, but reimbursements for salaries may be up to 100 percent of actual costs.
(2) Reimbursements for salaries shall be allocated to the assigned work locations of the employees receiving training to be used for salary or overtime payments for rangers and lifeguards assigned to those work locations.
(3) Expenditures under this subdivision in any fiscal year shall not exceed 90 percent of the moneys on deposit on June 30 of the preceding fiscal year.
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