Government Code section 26776

The contract may provide, with respect to any situation in which, under the law, a sheriff is authorized to transport a prisoner from the sheriff’s own county to a point in another county, or is authorized to take a prisoner into custody in another county and transport him to the sheriff’s own county, that a sheriff of either of the contracting counties shall perform such function.

Source: Section 26776, https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=GOV§ionNum=26776. (updated Jan. 1, 1963; accessed Sep. 1, 2025).

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Location: https://california.public.law/codes/government_code_section_26776

Original Source: Section 26776, https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=GOV§ionNum=26776. (last accessed May 12, 2025).