19.2-338 - Collection by town of cost of transporting prisoners. - Virginia Statutes

§ 19.2-338. Collection by town of cost of transporting prisoners.

(1) Notwithstanding any provision of any charter or any law to the contrary,any town may provide that any person convicted of violating any ordinance ofthe town may be charged, in addition to all other costs, fines, fees andcharges, the costs of transporting such person so convicted to and from ajail or other penal institution outside the corporate limits of such towndesignated by the town as a place of confinement for persons arrested forviolating the ordinances of the town and required to be held in jail pendingtrial upon such charge. The cost of such transportation shall be taxed as apart of the costs payable by persons convicted of violating such ordinances.

(2) No officer transporting any person convicted of violating any ordinanceof the town, as provided in subsection (1) hereof, shall charge or be paid,nor shall such town receive directly or indirectly, more than the cost oftransporting such person when more than one person is transported.

(Code 1950, § 19.1-322; 1960, c. 366; 1975, c. 495; 1995, c. 51.)