§31-20-10a Criteria and procedures for determining the cost per day for inmates incarcerated in facilities operated by the authority and allocating cost. - West Virginia Statutes

§31-20-10a. Criteria and procedures for determining the cost per day for inmates incarcerated in facilities operated by the authority and allocating cost.
(a) This section applies to the regional jail and correctional facility authority, counties, municipalities, the division of corrections, the United States marshal service, the United States bureau of prisons and any other entity by whose authority inmates are incarcerated and maintained in facilities operated by the authority.

(b)(1) The authority shall develop and approve a schedule of anticipated operational expenditures for each regional jail. The schedules shall include funds for personal services and fringe benefits for personnel necessary to the operation of the facilities, as well as allocations of funds for food, clothing, utilities, supplies, transportation and all other costs necessary to operate and maintain the facilities. The operational expenditure schedule shall include all costs, both direct and indirect, for operating and maintaining the regional jail. The authority shall develop and approve an operational expenditure schedule for each regional jail on an annual basis, consistent with the state fiscal year.

(2) If the actual operational costs exceed the approved schedule of operational expenditures by more than ten percent in a line item, the authority's executive director shall add a temporary surcharge to the cost per inmate day in an amount sufficient to cover the actual expenditures.

(c) The county is responsible for costs incurred by the authority for housing and maintaining inmates in its facilities who have not been committed to the custody of the commissioner of corrections.

(d) The county is responsible for the costs incurred by the authority for housing and maintaining inmates who, prior to sentencing, are awaiting transportation to a state correctional facility for a sixty-day evaluation period as provided in section seven, article twelve, chapter sixty-two of this code.

(e) The division of corrections is responsible for the costs incurred by the authority for housing and maintaining inmates who have been sentenced to the custody of the division of corrections beginning the calendar day following the day the commitment order was entered into the court record. The circuit clerk of the county from which the commitment order has been entered shall immediately transmit by facsimile machine an advance copy of the certified commitment order to the division of corrections and to the regional jail in which the inmate is confined.

(f) The division of corrections is responsible for the costs incurred by the authority for housing and maintaining inmates who have been held on a parole violation warrant.

(g) The division of corrections is responsible for the costs incurred by the authority for housing and maintaining inmates who have been returned to a regional jail under court order, except that the county from which the inmate was charged is responsible for the per diem costs in the event that a court of competent jurisdiction sets aside or vacates the order of commitment to the division of corrections, from the date of the order or the return of the inmate to a regional jail, whichever is later.

(h) The costs incurred by the authority for housing and maintaining inmates who are being held as fugitives from justice from another jurisdiction shall be billed to the fugitive's demanding jurisdiction, except the costs incurred by the authority for housing and maintaining any person who is arrested and confined in one of the authority's facilities on the basis of the commission of a new crime shall be billed to the arresting county until the pending West Virginia charges have been properly resolved.

(i) Any other entity or jurisdiction, unless otherwise stipulated in this section, is responsible for any and all costs associated with housing its inmates in a facility operated by the authority.