53.1-112 - Jail or jail farm expenses. - Virginia Statutes

§ 53.1-112. Jail or jail farm expenses.

Except as provided in § 53.1-114, the expenses of operating and maintaining ajail or jail farm and supporting the prisoners working thereon, includingboard, clothing and medical attention, shall be borne by the participatingpolitical subdivisions. Such participation shall be based on the percentageof the total cost for such operation that the number of prisoner days bearsto the total number of prisoner days confined therein, plus theirproportionate part of the fixed cost for such maintenance and operation.

(Code 1950, § 53-206.9; 1956, c. 681; 1968, c. 525; 1982, c. 636.)