53.1-91 - Pay for prisoners from other counties, cities or towns. - Virginia Statutes

§ 53.1-91. Pay for prisoners from other counties, cities or towns.

Each sheriff or jail superintendent shall collect from the counties, citiesand towns of the Commonwealth, other than the county, city or region forwhich he is elected or appointed, and from any other state or country forwhich any prisoner is held in such jail, the reasonable costs of guarding,feeding, clothing, caring for and furnishing medicine and medical attentionfor prisoners held for such county, city, town, state or country, to bedetermined by agreement with the governmental unit involved, or, in theabsence of such agreement, as shall be determined by the governing body ofhis county, city or regional jail.

The term "reasonable costs," as used in this section, means an amount notto exceed actual costs, including depreciation, less such amounts as may bepaid by the Commonwealth pursuant to §§ 15.2-1609.8 and 53.1-85.

(Code 1950, § 53-182; 1982, c. 636; 1983, c. 358; 1991, c. 383.)