Section 8001 Of Chapter 1. Programs With Special Focus On Substance Abuse From California Penal Code >> Title 9. >> Part 3. >> Chapter 1.
8001
. For purposes of this title, a live-in alternative to
incarceration rehabilitation program with special focus on substance
abusers means any long-term (two-year minimum) private, nonprofit
program that has operated and complied with the following conditions
for at least five years prior to the effective date of this section:
(a) Participants live full time at the program site and receive
room and board, and all necessary support at no cost to the
participant.
(b) All necessary support shall include reasonable medical,
dental, psychological, and legal services, counseling, entertainment,
clothing, academic, life-skills, and interpersonal education,
vocational training, rehabilitation, transportation, and recreation
activities.
(c) Neither the directors nor the officers of the program shall be
compensated in any manner other than the manner in which the
participants of the program are compensated.
(d) The program shall not be operated with any public funds.