California Law (Last Updated: March 4, 2014) |
Government Code - GOV |
Title 3. GOVERNMENT OF COUNTIES |
Division 3. FINANCIAL PROVISIONS |
Chapter 6.7. Supplemental Local Law Enforcement Funding |
Section 30062.
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(a) Except as required by paragraphs (1), (2), and (4) of subdivision (b) of Section 30061, moneys allocated from a Supplemental Law Enforcement Services Account (SLESA) to a recipient entity shall be expended exclusively to provide front line law enforcement services. These moneys shall supplement existing services, and shall not be used to supplant any existing funding for law enforcement services provided by that entity. Moneys allocated pursuant to paragraph (4) of subdivision (b) of Section 30061 shall be used to supplement and not supplant funding by local agencies for existing services.
(b) In the Counties of Los Angeles, Orange, and San Diego only, the district attorney may, in consultation with city attorneys in the county, determine a prorated share of the moneys received by the district attorney pursuant to this section to be allocated to city attorneys in the county in each fiscal year to fund the prosecution by those city attorneys of misdemeanor violations of state law.
(c) In no event shall any moneys allocated from the county's SLESA be expended by a recipient agency to fund any of the following:
(1) Administrative overhead costs in excess of 0.5 percent of a recipient entity's SLESA allocation for that year.
(2) The costs of any capital project or construction project funded from moneys allocated pursuant to paragraph (3) of subdivision (b) of Section 30061 that does not directly support front line law enforcement services.
(3) The costs of any capital project or construction project funded from moneys allocated pursuant to paragraph (4) of subdivision (b) of Section 30061.
(d) For purposes of subdivision (c), both of the following shall apply:
(1) A "recipient agency" or "recipient entity" is that entity that actually incurs the expenditures of SLESA funds allocated pursuant to paragraph (1), (2), (3), or (4) of subdivision (b) of Section 30061.
(2) Administrative overhead costs shall only be charged by the recipient entity, as defined in paragraph (1), up to 0.5 percent of its SLESA allocation.
(e) For purposes of this chapter, "front line law enforcement services" and "front line municipal police services" each include antigang, community crime prevention, and juvenile justice programs.