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2016 California Code
Penal Code - PEN
PART 3 - OF IMPRISONMENT AND THE DEATH PENALTY
TITLE 4 - COUNTY JAILS, FARMS AND CAMPS
CHAPTER 3 - Blood Donations
Section 4351.

CA Penal Code § 4351 (2016) What's This?

4351. Any prisoner, to whom this chapter applies, may voluntarily donate blood to a blood bank duly licensed by the State Department of Public Health. Prior to blood donation the prisoner shall be given an examination with all clothes removed by a physician and surgeon of the blood bank to whom blood is to be donated, and donations shall be refused unless such physician shall find the prisoner to be a suitable person for blood donation. No more than one such donation shall be permitted during any 72-day period.

(Added by renumbering Section 4251 by Stats. 1967, Ch. 138.)

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