4410-4422
PENAL CODE
SECTION 4410-4422
4410. The State General Obligation Bond Law is adopted for the purpose of the issuance, sale, and repayment of, and otherwise providing with respect to, the bonds authorized to be issued pursuant to this title, and the provisions of that law are included in this title as though set out in full in this chapter except that, notwithstanding anything in the State General Obligation Bond Law, the maximum maturity of the bonds shall not exceed 20 years from the date of each respective series. The maturity of each respective series shall be calculated from the date of such series. 4411. As used in this title, and for the purpose of this title, the following words shall have the following meanings: (a) "Committee" means the County Jail Capital Expenditure Finance Committee created by Section 4413. (b) "Fund" means the County Jail Expenditure Fund. 4412. There is in the State Treasury the County Jail Capital Expenditure Fund, which fund is hereby created. 4413. For the purpose of authorizing the issuance and sale, pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law, of the bonds authorized by this title, the County Jail Capital Expenditure Finance Committee is hereby created. The committee consists of the Governor or his designated representative, the Controller, the Treasurer, and the Director of Finance. The County Jail Capital Expenditure Committee shall be the "committee" as that term is used in the State General Obligation Bond Law, and the Treasurer shall serve as chairman of the committee. The Board of Corrections is hereby designated as "the board" for purposes of this title and for the purposes of the State General Obligation Bond Law. 4414. The committee is hereby authorized and empowered to create a debt or debts, liability or liabilities, of the State of California, in the aggregate amount of two hundred eighty million dollars ($280,000,000), in the manner provided in this title. Such debt or debts, liability or liabilities, shall be created for the purpose of providing the funds to be used for the object and work specified in Section 4415 and for administrative costs incurred in connection therewith. 4415. Moneys in the fund shall be available for expenditure in accordance with this title by the Board of Corrections. Prior to the disbursement of any money in the fund, the board and the appropriate subcommittees of the Senate Committee on Criminal Procedure and of the Assembly Committee on Public Safety shall reexamine the factors specified in subdivisions (a) and (b) to determine whether they are still suitable and applicable to the distribution of the proceeds of the bonds authorized by this title. Moneys in the fund shall be available for expenditure for the following purposes: (a) For the construction, reconstruction, remodeling, and replacement of county jail facilities, and the performance of deferred maintenance activities on the facilities pursuant to rules and regulations adopted by the Board of Corrections, in accordance with Section 6029.1. No expenditure shall be made unless county matching funds of 25 percent are provided. (b) In performing the duties set forth in subdivision (a), the Board of Corrections shall consider all of the following: (1) The extent to which the county requesting aid has exhausted all other available means of raising the requested funds for the capital improvements and the extent to which the funds from the County Jail Capital Expenditure Fund will be utilized to attract other sources of capital financing for county jail facilities. (2) The extent to which the capital improvements are necessary to the life or safety of the persons confined or employed in the facility or the health and sanitary conditions of the facility. (3) The extent to which the county has utilized reasonable alternatives to pre-conviction and post-conviction incarceration, including, but not limited to, programs to facilitate release upon one's own recognizance where appropriate to individuals pending trial, sentencing alternatives to custody, and civil commitment or diversion programs consistent with public safety for those with drug- or alcohol-related problems or mental or developmental disabilities. 4416. (a) When sold, the bonds authorized by this title shall constitute valid and legally binding general obligations of the State of California, and the full faith and credit of the State of California is hereby pledged for the punctual payment of both principal and interest thereon. (b) There shall be collected annually in the same manner and at the same time as other state revenue is collected such a sum, in addition to the ordinary revenues of the state, as shall be required to pay the interest and principal on the bonds maturing each year, and it is hereby made the duty of all officers charged by law with any duty in regard to the collection of the revenue to do and perform each and every act which shall be necessary to collect that additional sum. (c) All money deposited in the fund which has been derived from premium and accrued interest on bonds sold shall be available for transfer to the General Fund as a credit to expenditures for bond interest. 4417. All money deposited in the fund pursuant to any provision of law requiring repayments to the state for assistance financed by the proceeds of the bonds authorized by this title shall be available for transfer to the General Fund. When transferred to the General Fund such money shall be applied as a reimbursement to the General Fund on account of principal and interest on the bonds which has been paid from the General Fund. 4418. There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund in the State Treasury for the purpose of this title, such an amount as will equal the following: (a) That sum annually as will be necessary to pay the principal of and the interest on the bonds issued and sold pursuant to the provisions of this title, as principal and interest become due and payable. (b) That sum as is necessary to carry out the provisions of Section 4419, which sum is appropriated without regard to fiscal years. 4419. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this title, the Director of Finance may by executive order authorize the withdrawal from the General Fund of an amount or amounts not to exceed the amount of the unsold bonds which the committee has by resolution authorized to be sold for the purpose of carrying out this title. Any amounts withdrawn shall be deposited in the fund and shall be disbursed by the board in accordance with this title. Any money made available under this section to the board shall be returned by the board to the General Fund from moneys received from the sale of bonds sold for the purpose of carrying out this title. Such withdrawals from the General Fund shall be returned to the General Fund with interest at the rate which would have otherwise been earned by such sums in the Pooled Money Investment Fund. 4419.5. Notwithstanding any other provision of this bond act, or of the State General Obligation Bond Law (Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 16720) of Part 3 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code), if the Treasurer sells bonds pursuant to this bond act that include a bond counsel opinion to the effect that the interest on the bonds is excluded from gross income for federal tax purposes under designated conditions, the Treasurer may maintain separate accounts for the bond proceeds invested and the investment earnings on those proceeds, and may use or direct the use of those proceeds or earnings to pay any rebate, penalty, or other payment required under federal law, or take any other action with respect to the investment and use of those bond proceeds, as may be required or desirable under federal law in order to maintain the tax-exempt status of those bonds and to obtain any other advantage under federal law on behalf of the funds of this state. 4420. The committee may authorize the State Treasurer to sell all or any part of the bonds herein authorized at such time or times as may be fixed by the Treasurer. 4421. All proceeds from the sale of bonds, except those derived from premiums and accrued interest, shall be available for the purpose provided in Section 4415 but shall not be available for transfer to the General Fund to pay principal and interest on bonds. The money in the fund may be expended only as herein provided. 4422. All proposed appropriations for the projects specified in this title, shall be included in a section in the Budget Bill for the 1982-83 and each succeeding fiscal year, for consideration by the Legislature. All appropriations shall be subject to all limitations enacted in the Budget Act and to all fiscal procedures prescribed by law with respect to the expenditures of state funds, unless expressly exempted from such laws by a statute enacted by the Legislature. No funds derived from the bonds authorized by this title may be expended pursuant to an appropriation not contained in such section of the Budget Act.