DIVISION 12. CALIFORNIA CONSERVATION CORPS [14000. - 14424.]
Heading of Division 12 amended by Stats. 1976, Ch. 342.
§§ 14000–14424 · 51 sections
CHAPTER 1. Findings and Declarations of Policy §§ 14000–14004 · 5 sections
- § 14000 (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that every California youth should be encouraged to reach their full potential, but that many youths require…
- § 14001 In the Natural Resources Agency there is the California Conservation Corps, which shall be responsible for carrying out the purposes of, and implementing the…
- § 14002 The Legislature finds and declares that the California Conservation Corps provides an invaluable service. The Legislature supports the corps’ mission to…
- § 14003 (a) The Legislature finds and declares that the State of California has already established a model conservation corps program and that redundant federal and…
- § 14004 In memory of Brien Thomas “B.T.” Collins, and on behalf of his passion, support, and commitment to the mission of the corps, the California Conservation Corps…
CHAPTER 2. Definitions §§ 14100–14102 · 3 sections
CHAPTER 3. Program §§ 14300–14318 · 20 sections
- § 14300 Young adults participating in the corps program shall generally be engaged in projects that do the following: (a) Preserve, maintain, and enhance…
- § 14301 The Governor shall appoint a director, who shall act as the administrative officer of the corps, and a deputy director. The appointment of the director is…
- § 14302 Young adults shall be selected for participation in the corps program on the basis of motivation for hard work, personal development, and public service, and…
- § 14302.5 (a) The corps shall collaborate with the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Employment Development Department to assist any corpsmember who is a veteran of…
- § 14303 The director may employ special corpsmembers without regard to their age so that the corps may draw upon their special skills which may contribute to the…
- § 14304 Projects shall be directed toward providing opportunities to the public for their education or the use of these natural resources and environmentally important…
- § 14305 In order to protect the rights of corpsmembers individually and the corps as a community, the director shall adopt a corpsmember bill of rights, corpsmember…
- § 14306 To implement this division, the director may do all of the following: (a) Recruit and enroll corpsmembers and special corpsmembers. (b) Adopt criteria for…
- § 14306.5 (a) In recruiting and enrolling corpsmembers and special corpsmembers, the director may select an applicant for enrollment in the corps program who is on…
- § 14306.6 (a) In complying with subdivision (b) of Section 14306 and Section 14306.5 of this code and Section 12645g(a) of Title 42 of the United States Code, the corps…
- § 14307 Fire prevention, fire suppression, and disaster relief including, but not limited to, flood, earthquake, pest infestation assistance measures, and search and…
- § 14308 In carrying out this division, the director may utilize any services, materials, or property of any agency of the state and may make any agreements with any…
- § 14309 In order to provide the best and most cost-effective training possible for corps members and other state employees, state agencies shall seek to combine or…
- § 14310 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, corpsmembers and special corpsmembers, other than staff officers and employees, shall not receive state retirement…
- § 14311 In keeping with the corps’ entrepreneurial nature and to expand the corpsmember population, the corps shall actively seek reimbursable work projects from state…
- § 14312 (a) The Collins-Dugan California Conservation Corps Reimbursement Account is hereby created in the General Fund in the State Treasury, for support of the…
- § 14313 To assist the corps’ operation as an entrepreneurial and incentive-based program, the director may seek and accept donations from private entities,…
- § 14315 (a) Subject to the availability of assistance from the corps, a state agency that is considering the use of contracted labor shall give priority to the corps…
- § 14316 The Department of Finance may make a loan from the General Fund to the Collins-Dugan California Conservation Corps Reimbursement Account, in an amount not to…
- § 14318 (a) The corps may enter into a contract with an individual or collective of community conservation corps certified pursuant to Section 14507.5 for a project or…
CHAPTER 3.2. Training of County or City Members §§ 14350–14351 · 2 sections
- § 14350 The director may establish a training program for members of county or city conservation corps. The program may be designed to provide the same training to…
- § 14351 If the corps establishes a training program as described in Section 14350, the corps may contract with the county or city requesting the training, and the…
CHAPTER 3.5. Nonresidential Program §§ 14400–14406 · 7 sections
- § 14400 The corps shall develop nonresidential programs in urban communities, and may develop those programs in other than urban communities, which have high…
- § 14401 The corps shall develop procedures for recruiting high school dropouts from the neighborhoods in which these programs are located.
- § 14402 The corps shall give priority to providing an educational component for corpsmembers who have not completed high school. The component shall be equal in…
- § 14403 (a) The corps shall cooperate with, and seek the cooperation of, state and local workforce investment boards and youth councils, designated pursuant to any…
- § 14404 The corps shall assist corpsmembers who desire to return to school to develop plans to accomplish this goal.
- § 14405 Implementation of the educational component of the nonresidential program established pursuant to this chapter shall be contingent on the California…
- § 14406 The corps may contract with public or private nonprofit agencies to provide services for a nonresidential program. The public or private nonprofit agency shall…
CHAPTER 4. Forestry Corps Program §§ 14410–14413 · 4 sections
- § 14410 No later than July 1, 2019, the director shall establish a forestry corps program.
- § 14411 (a) The forestry corps program shall accomplish all of the following objectives: (1) Develop and implement forest health projects, pursuant to Section 14412.…
- § 14412 Forest health projects may include, but are not limited to, all of the following: (a) Fuels reduction and hazardous fuels removal. (b) Seedling and tree…
- § 14413 (a) No later than January 1, 2020, the director shall establish two forestry corps crews, one to be based in the Central Valley and the other in the Inland…
CHAPTER 4.5. The Education and Employment Reentry Program §§ 14415–14415.6 · 7 sections
- § 14415 (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) Conserving or developing natural resources and enhancing and maintaining environmentally…
- § 14415.1 (a) The director may establish the Education and Employment Reentry Program within the corps and may enroll in the program formerly incarcerated individuals…
- § 14415.2 (a) Persons described in Section 14415.1 shall be selected for participation as a program member on the basis of motivation, hard work, personal development,…
- § 14415.3 Participants in the program shall generally be engaged in any of the following activities: (a) Natural resources or land management projects. (b) Fuels…
- § 14415.4 The program shall accomplish all of the following objectives: (a) Develop, partner with, and create opportunities for the forestry corps program objectives…
- § 14415.5 The program established pursuant to this chapter shall not replace or restrict existing or future programs and training offered to formerly incarcerated…
- § 14415.6 Implementation of the program pursuant to this chapter is contingent upon an appropriation being made in the annual Budget Act or another statute for its…
CHAPTER 5. Corpsmember Educational and Employment Outcome Reporting §§ 14420–14424 · 3 sections
- § 14420 For purposes of this chapter, “cohort” means all corpsmembers who permanently separate from the corps in a state fiscal year after having been enrolled for…
- § 14422 It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this chapter to evaluate how effectively the corps transitions corpsmembers into educational and employment…
- § 14424 (a) Commencing January 1, 2020, the corps shall report by December 31 of each year the total number of corpsmembers in the cohort who permanently separated…