Montebello Municipal Code Ch. 1.24 Prison Labor (CA)

1.24.010 - Labor upon public works.¶

Persons confined in the city jail under a final judgment of imprisonment for violation of any ordinance may be required by the chief of police to perform labor on the streets or other public property, or works within the city.

(Prior code § 1201 (part))

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1.24.020 - Streets or other public property or works within the city defined.¶

The phrase, "streets or other public property or works within the city," as used in this chapter includes, among other things, clerical and menial labor in the city jail, or in any camp maintained for the labor of such persons on the streets or other public property, or works within the city.

(Prior code § 1201 (part))

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1.24.030 - Rules and regulations—Clothing.¶

The city council may prescribe and enforce the rules and regulations under which such labor is to be performed; and may provide clothing of such distinctive character for such persons as such city council in its discretion, may deem proper. For each month the prisoner appears, by the record, to have given cheerful and willing obedience to the rules and regulations, and that his conduct is reported by the office in charge of the jail to be positively good, five days shall with the consent of the city council, be deducted from his term of sentence.

(Prior code § 1201 (part))

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