53.1-133.2 - Establishment of jail industry programs. - Virginia Statutes

§ 53.1-133.2. Establishment of jail industry programs.

The sheriff or jail superintendent operating a local correctional facility,with the approval of the local governing body, jail farm board, or regionaljail or jail farm board or regional jail authority, as the case may be, isauthorized to establish a jail industry program within the facility headministers or on public property or works owned, leased or operated by thecounty, city, town or federal government, whether the same be located withinsuch county, city or town or elsewhere. If elsewhere, the governing body ofthe locality where the proposed jail industry program is to be establishedshall approve the location of the program. Any such program shall be subjectto the provisions of this article and shall not be established, operated,maintained or otherwise supported by state funds except as provided in §53.1-133.6.

(1992, c. 859; 1995, c. 756.)