BILL NUMBER: AB 425INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Melendez FEBRUARY 19, 2015 An act to amend Section 4000 of the Penal Code, relating to jails. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 425, as introduced, Melendez. County jails. Existing law provides that a county jail is kept by the sheriff of the county in which the jail is situated and is to be used for specified purposes, including for the confinement for persons sentenced to imprisonment in the county jail upon a criminal conviction. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions. Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 4000 of the Penal Code is amended to read: 4000. The common jails in the several counties of this state are kept by the sheriffs of the counties in which they are respectively situated, and are used as follows: 1. For the detention of persons committed in order to secure their attendance as witnesses in criminalcases;cases. 2. For the detention of persons charged with crime and committed fortrial;trial. 3. For the confinement of persons committed for contempt, or upon civil process, or by other authority oflaw;law. 4. For the confinement of persons sentenced to imprisonment therein upon a conviction for crime. 5. For the confinement of persons pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 3454 for a violation of the terms and conditions of their postrelease community supervision.