SECTIONS 6580-6583 - California Statutes

GOVERNMENT CODE

SECTION 6580-6583

6580. As used in this article, the following words shall have the
following meanings:
(a) "Joint county park board" means a board, commission, or other
public entity organized pursuant to an agreement made in accordance
with Article 1 (commencing with Section 6500) of this chapter for the
purpose of improving, operating, and maintaining a single park or
other recreation facility located within more than one county, if
none of the territory within the park or other recreation facility is
contained within an incorporated city, and further, if all of the
counties within which the park or other recreation facility is
located are parties to the agreement creating the board, commission,
or other public entity.
(b) "Counties" means all of the counties within which a portion of
the park or other recreation facility, operated and maintained by a
joint county park board, is located.
(c) "Park" means a park or other recreation facility operated and
maintained by a joint county park board.

6581. A joint county park board may designate the sheriff of any
one of the counties as the park sheriff. The park sheriff shall be
designated by a contract made by and between the board of supervisors
of the county of the park sheriff and the joint county park board.
The contract shall provide for the amount to be paid the county of
the park sheriff for the services to be rendered by the park sheriff
at the park, and the method and time of termination of the contract.
The contract shall further provide that an amount equal to the funds
received by the county of the park sheriff from the joint county park
board during the term of the contract shall be expended during the
term of the contract for the purposes of providing services at the
park through the park sheriff. The contract shall not take effect
until it has been executed by the parties to it and, in addition, has
been approved in writing by the park sheriff and by duly adopted
resolutions of each of the boards of supervisors of the counties.

6582. Upon the designation of a park sheriff in the manner provided
in Section 6581, and until such time as the designation is revoked
by the termination of the contract designating the park sheriff, the
park sheriff shall have and shall exercise throughout the park all of
the functions, duties, obligations, and responsibilities of the
office of sheriff, and shall have and may exercise within the park,
all of the privileges in connection with the office of sheriff, all
as though the entire park were a part of the county of the park
sheriff, except as to those duties constituting the civil functions
of the sheriff.

6583. The provisions of this article applicable to a park sheriff,
if one has been designated, shall apply to all deputies and
subordinates of the park sheriff in their capacities as such deputies
or subordinates.