Section 4125.1 Of Article 1. County Industrial Farms From California Penal Code >> Title 4. >> Part 3. >> Chapter 2. >> Article 1.
4125.1
. The board of supervisors may contract with the United
States or the State of California, or any department or agency
thereof, for the performance of work and labor by any person in
custody on any county industrial farm or industrial road camp or
confined in the county jail or branch thereof under a final judgment
of imprisonment rendered in a criminal action or proceeding or as a
condition of probation in the suppression of fires within and upon
the national forests, state parks, or other lands of the United
States or the State of California, or within and upon such other
lands, of whatever ownership, contiguous to, or adjacent to said
state or federal lands, the suppression of fires upon which other
lands affords fire protection to said state or federal lands. Such
payments as may be so contracted for and to be paid by the United
States or by the State of California for the work and labor so
performed by any person so in custody may, by order of the board of
supervisors, be credited in full or in part, and upon such terms and
conditions as the board shall determine, to any such person so in
custody and performing such work and labor, and all in addition to
those credits hereinbefore provided in Section 4125 of this code.
Whenever any such person so in custody shall perform the services
herein specified he shall be subject to workmen's compensation
benefits to the same extent as a county employee, and the board of
supervisors shall provide and cover any such person so in custody,
while performing such services, with accident, death and compensation
insurance as is otherwise regularly provided for employees of the
county.
The term "suppression of fires" as herein used shall include the
construction of firebreaks and other works of improvement for the
prevention and suppression of fire whether or not constructed in the
actual course of suppression of existing fires.