Section 4574 Of Chapter 3. Unauthorized Communications With Prisons And Prisoners From California Penal Code >> Title 5. >> Part 3. >> Chapter 3.
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. (a) Except when otherwise authorized by law, or when
authorized by the person in charge of the prison or other institution
referred to in this section or by an officer of the institution
empowered by the person in charge of the institution to give such
authorization, any person, who knowingly brings or sends into, or
knowingly assists in bringing into, or sending into, any state prison
or prison road camp or prison forestry camp, or other prison camp or
prison farm or any other place where prisoners of the state prison
are located under the custody of prison officials, officers or
employees, or any jail or any county road camp in this state, or
within the grounds belonging or adjacent to any such institution, any
firearms, deadly weapons, or explosives, and any person who, while
lawfully confined in a jail or county road camp possesses therein any
firearm, deadly weapon, explosive, tear gas or tear gas weapon, is
guilty of a felony and punishable by imprisonment pursuant to
subdivision (h) of Section 1170 for two, three, or four years.
(b) Except as provided in subdivision (a), any person who
knowingly brings or sends into those places any tear gas or tear gas
weapons which results in the release of such tear gas or use of such
weapon is guilty of a felony and punishable by imprisonment pursuant
to subdivision (h) of Section 1170 for two, three, or four years.
(c) Except as provided in subdivision (a), any person who
knowingly brings or sends into those places any tear gas or tear gas
weapons is guilty of a misdemeanor and punishable by imprisonment in
the county jail not exceeding six months, or by fine not exceeding
one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by both such fine and imprisonment.