If the court has not issued a committal order with deferred effect pursuant to 3° of I of article 464-2, persons who are not imprisoned or who are serving a sentence under the semi-liberty, out-of-court placement or electronically supervised home detention regime, who have been sentenced to less than or equal to one year’s imprisonment or for whom the remaining term of imprisonment is less than or equal to one year, or for whom, in the event of a combination of sentences, the total of the prison sentences handed down or remaining to be served is less than or equal to one year, shall benefit, as far as possible and if their personality and situation allow, in accordance with the procedure provided for in this paragraph, from semi-liberty, out-of-court placement, home detention under electronic surveillance, the splitting or suspension of sentences, conditional release or the conversion provided for in article 747-1. When the firm sentence handed down or remaining to be served is less than or equal to six months, it must be subject to home detention under electronic monitoring, semi-liberty or work release, unless the personality or situation of the convicted person makes these measures impossible, without prejudice to the possibility of conditional release or conversion, splitting or suspension of the sentence.
Prior to the enforcement of the sentence or sentences, the public prosecutor informs the sentence enforcement judge of this or these decisions by sending all relevant documents, including a copy of the decision or decisions and bulletin No. 1 of the criminal record of the person concerned.
Unless he or she has already been notified of these summonses at the end of the sentencing hearing pursuant to Article 474 of this code, the sentenced person is then, unless otherwise decided by the sentence enforcement judge, summoned first to appear before the sentence enforcement judge, and then before the prison integration and probation service, within time limits that may not exceed thirty and forty-five days respectively from the time they are informed by the public prosecutor, in order to determine the arrangements for serving his sentence that are best suited to his personality and his material, family and social situation.