Section 4017 Of Chapter 1. County Jails From California Penal Code >> Title 4. >> Part 3. >> Chapter 1.
4017
. All persons confined in the county jail, industrial farm,
road camp, or city jail under a final judgment of imprisonment
rendered in a criminal action or proceeding and all persons confined
in the county jail, industrial farm, road camp, or city jail as a
condition of probation after suspension of imposition of a sentence
or suspension of execution of sentence may be required by an order of
the board of supervisors or city council to perform labor on the
public works or ways in the county or city, respectively, and to
engage in the prevention and suppression of forest, brush and grass
fires upon lands within the county or city, respectively, or upon
lands in adjacent counties where the suppression of fires would
afford fire protection to lands within the county.
Whenever any such person so in custody shall suffer injuries or
death while working in the prevention or suppression of forest, brush
or grass fires he shall be considered to be an employee of the
county or city, respectively, for the purposes of compensation under
the provisions of the Labor Code regarding workmen's compensation and
such work shall be performed under the direct supervision of a
local, state or federal employee whose duties include fire prevention
and suppression work. A regularly employed member of an organized
fire department shall not be required to directly supervise more than
20 such persons so in custody.
As used in this section, "labor on the public works" includes
clerical and menial labor in the county jail, industrial farm, camps
maintained for the labor of such persons upon the ways in the county,
or city jail.