Bill Text: CA AB739 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Integrated Regional Water Management Plans: conveyance projects.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-08-25 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(c). [AB739 Detail]

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BILL NUMBER: AB 739	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Salas

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2013

   An act to amend Section 830.35 of the Penal Code, relating to
peace officers.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 739, as introduced, Salas. Peace officers: deputy coroners.
   Existing law prescribes the powers and authority of peace
officers, and provides that, among other peace officers, a coroner
and deputy coroners, who are regularly employed and paid in that
capacity, are peace officers if their primary duties are within
certain specified duties pertaining to inquests, as specified.
Existing law establishes the extent of the authority of these peace
officers, and provides that those peace officers may carry firearms
only if authorized and under terms and conditions specified by their
employing agency.
   This bill would include within the definition of peace officer
describing coroner and deputy coroner, part-time and volunteer
personnel who perform the duties of a deputy coroner, as specified,
if those part-time and volunteer personnel meet the same background,
training, and certification requirements established by the
Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training for regularly
employed deputy coroners.
   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 830.35 of the Penal Code is amended to read:
   830.35.  The following persons are peace officers whose authority
extends to any place in the state for the purpose of performing their
primary duty or when making an arrest pursuant to Section 836 as to
any public offense with respect to which there is immediate danger to
person or property, or of the escape of the perpetrator of that
offense, or pursuant to Section 8597 or 8598 of the Government Code.
Those peace officers may carry firearms only if authorized and under
terms and conditions specified by their employing agency.
   (a) A welfare fraud investigator or inspector, regularly employed
and paid in that capacity by a county, if the primary duty of the
peace officer is the enforcement of the provisions of the Welfare and
Institutions Code.
   (b) A child support investigator or inspector, regularly employed
and paid in that capacity by a district attorney's office, if the
primary duty of the peace officer is the enforcement of the
provisions of the Family Code and Section 270.
   (c) The coroner and deputy coroners, regularly employed and paid
in that capacity, of a county, if the primary duty of the peace
officer are those duties set forth in Sections 27469 and 27491 to
27491.4, inclusive, of the Government Code  .  
, and any part   -time or volunteer personnel performing
those duties of a deputy coroner, if those part-time and volunteer
personnel meet the same   background, training, and
certification requirements established by the Commission on Peace
Officer Standards and Training for regularly employed deputy
coroners.     
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