30:8-59 - Payment by county to department of corrections for reassigned inmates - New Jersey Statutes

30:8-59.  Payment by county to department of corrections for reassigned inmates
    The governing body of a county whose jail, workhouse or penitentiary has been prohibited from accepting new inmates, and whose inmates have been assigned to other penal facilities pursuant to section 2 of this act, shall appropriate an amount to repay the Department of Corrections for the custody, care, maintenance, and for all other services normally provided by the county to inmates of such facilities.  For the first full calendar year, or portion thereof, following the effective date of this act said payment shall be $60.00 a day for each inmate, and said sum shall increase 5% per annum each year thereafter.  Any facility receiving inmates pursuant to section 2 of this act shall receive from the Department of Corrections $60.00 per day for each inmate  sent to the institution for the first full calendar year, or portion thereof,  following the effective date of this act.  Such sum shall increase by 5% per  annum each year thereafter.

     L.1979, c. 472, s. 3, eff. Feb. 27, 1980.