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The purpose of this compact is to provide for the mutual recognition of the control and authority over prisoners during transport to and from medical, dental, and psychiatric facilities across state boundaries.\n\t\tARTICLE II.\n\t\tAs used in this compact, unless the context clearly requires otherwise:\n\n1\n\n“State” means a state of the United States, the United States of America, a territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.2\n\n“Sending state” means a state party to this compact in which a prisoner in need of medical, dental, or psychiatric services is incarcerated.3\n\n“Receiving state” means a state party to this compact in which is located a medical, dental, or psychiatric facility.4\n\n“Prisoner” means a male or female offender who is committed under sentence to or confined in a local correctional facility.5\n\n“Local correctional facility” means any penal or correctional facility or any jail, regional jail, jail farm, or other place used for the detention or incarceration of adult offenders that is owned, maintained, or operated by any political subdivision or combination of subdivisions of a state or a local government of a state.\n\t\t\tARTICLE III.\n\t\t\tEach party state agrees to extend all necessary authority to law-enforcement or corrections officers from a sending state while such officers have in their custody a prisoner for the purpose of escorting the prisoner to and from a medical, dental, or psychiatric facility located in the receiving state.\n\t\t\tARTICLE IV.\n\t\t\tThis compact shall enter into force and become effective and binding upon the states so acting when it has been enacted into law by any two states. Thereafter, this compact shall enter into force and become effective and binding as to any other of said states upon similar action by such state.\n\t\t\tARTICLE V.\n\t\t\tThis compact shall continue in force and remain binding upon a party state until the party state has enacted a statute repealing the same and providing for the sending of formal written notice of withdrawal from the compact to the appropriate official of all other party states. No actual withdrawal shall take effect until one year after the notice provided in said statute has been sent. Such withdrawal shall not relieve the withdrawing state from its obligations assumed hereunder prior to the effective date of withdrawal. Before the effective date of withdrawal, a withdrawing state shall remove to its territory, at its own expense, such inmates as it may have confined pursuant to the provisions of this compact.\n\t\t\tARTICLE VI.\n\t\t\tThe provisions of this compact shall be liberally construed and shall be severable. If any phrase, clause, sentence, or provision of this compact is declared to be contrary to the constitution of any participating state or of the United States or the applicability thereof to any government, agency, person, or circumstance is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of this compact and the applicability thereof to any government, agency, person, or circumstance shall not be affected thereby. If this compact is held contrary to the constitution of any state participating therein, the compact shall remain in full force and effect as to the remaining states and in full force and effect as to the state affected as to all severable matters.","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":262978,"text":"The Governor is authorized and requested to execute, on behalf of the Commonwealth, with any other state or states legally joining therein a compact that shall be in form substantially as follows:\n\t\tThe compacting states solemnly agree that:\n\t\tARTICLE I.\n\t\tThe party states, desiring by common action to efficiently utilize and provide emergency medical, dental, and psychiatric care for prisoners of local correctional facilities, declare that it is the policy of each of the party states to cooperate with one another to serve the best interests of the prisoners and of the state and local governments in the convenient and economical provision of these services. The purpose of this compact is to provide for the mutual recognition of the control and authority over prisoners during transport to and from medical, dental, and psychiatric facilities across state boundaries.\n\t\tARTICLE II.\n\t\tAs used in this compact, unless the context clearly requires otherwise:","type":"section","prefixes":[""],"prefix":"","entire_prefix":"","prefix_anchor":"","level":1,"next_prefix":"1"},"1":{"id":262979,"text":"“State” means a state of the United States, the United States of America, a territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.","type":"section","prefixes":["1"],"prefix":"1","entire_prefix":"1","prefix_anchor":"1","level":1,"prior_prefix":"","next_prefix":"2"},"2":{"id":262980,"text":"“Sending state” means a state party to this compact in which a prisoner in need of medical, dental, or psychiatric services is incarcerated.","type":"section","prefixes":["2"],"prefix":"2","entire_prefix":"2","prefix_anchor":"2","level":1,"prior_prefix":"1","next_prefix":"3"},"3":{"id":262981,"text":"“Receiving state” means a state party to this compact in which is located a medical, dental, or psychiatric facility.","type":"section","prefixes":["3"],"prefix":"3","entire_prefix":"3","prefix_anchor":"3","level":1,"prior_prefix":"2","next_prefix":"4"},"4":{"id":262982,"text":"“Prisoner” means a male or female offender who is committed under sentence to or confined in a local correctional facility.","type":"section","prefixes":["4"],"prefix":"4","entire_prefix":"4","prefix_anchor":"4","level":1,"prior_prefix":"3","next_prefix":"5"},"5":{"id":262983,"text":"“Local correctional facility” means any penal or correctional facility or any jail, regional jail, jail farm, or other place used for the detention or incarceration of adult offenders that is owned, maintained, or operated by any political subdivision or combination of subdivisions of a state or a local government of a state.\n\t\t\tARTICLE III.\n\t\t\tEach party state agrees to extend all necessary authority to law-enforcement or corrections officers from a sending state while such officers have in their custody a prisoner for the purpose of escorting the prisoner to and from a medical, dental, or psychiatric facility located in the receiving state.\n\t\t\tARTICLE IV.\n\t\t\tThis compact shall enter into force and become effective and binding upon the states so acting when it has been enacted into law by any two states. Thereafter, this compact shall enter into force and become effective and binding as to any other of said states upon similar action by such state.\n\t\t\tARTICLE V.\n\t\t\tThis compact shall continue in force and remain binding upon a party state until the party state has enacted a statute repealing the same and providing for the sending of formal written notice of withdrawal from the compact to the appropriate official of all other party states. No actual withdrawal shall take effect until one year after the notice provided in said statute has been sent. Such withdrawal shall not relieve the withdrawing state from its obligations assumed hereunder prior to the effective date of withdrawal. Before the effective date of withdrawal, a withdrawing state shall remove to its territory, at its own expense, such inmates as it may have confined pursuant to the provisions of this compact.\n\t\t\tARTICLE VI.\n\t\t\tThe provisions of this compact shall be liberally construed and shall be severable. If any phrase, clause, sentence, or provision of this compact is declared to be contrary to the constitution of any participating state or of the United States or the applicability thereof to any government, agency, person, or circumstance is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of this compact and the applicability thereof to any government, agency, person, or circumstance shall not be affected thereby. If this compact is held contrary to the constitution of any state participating therein, the compact shall remain in full force and effect as to the remaining states and in full force and effect as to the state affected as to all severable matters.","type":"section","prefixes":["5"],"prefix":"5","entire_prefix":"5","prefix_anchor":"5","level":1,"prior_prefix":"4"}},"ancestry":[{"id":15448,"edition_id":1,"name":"Jail Industry Programs","identifier":"8","label":"article","depth":3,"order_by":1,"parent_id":12847,"metadata":{},"date_created":"2026-06-26 03:55:06","date_modified":"2026-06-26 03:55:06","permalink":{"id":238847,"object_type":"structure","relational_id":15448,"identifier":"8","token":"53.1\/3\/8","url":"\/53.1\/3\/8\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1}},{"id":12847,"edition_id":1,"name":"Local Correctional Facilities","identifier":"3","label":"chapter","depth":2,"order_by":1,"parent_id":12717,"metadata":{},"date_created":"2026-06-26 03:43:56","date_modified":"2026-06-26 03:43:56","permalink":{"id":238281,"object_type":"structure","relational_id":12847,"identifier":"3","token":"53.1\/3","url":"\/53.1\/3\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1}},{"id":12717,"edition_id":1,"name":"Prisons and Other Methods of Correction","identifier":"53.1","label":"title","depth":1,"order_by":1,"parent_id":null,"metadata":{},"date_created":"2026-06-26 03:43:49","date_modified":"2026-06-26 03:43:49","permalink":{"id":237591,"object_type":"structure","relational_id":12717,"identifier":"53.1","token":"53.1","url":"\/53.1\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1}}],"structure_contents":[{"id":81833,"structure_id":15448,"section_number":"53.1-133.1","catch_line":"Definition","url":"\/53.1-133.1\/","token":"53.1\/3\/8\/53.1-133.1","metadata":false},{"id":73033,"structure_id":15448,"section_number":"53.1-133.10","catch_line":"(See Editor's note) Compact; transport of prisoners to and from medical facilities across state boundaries; Governor to execute","url":"\/53.1-133.10\/","token":"53.1\/3\/8\/53.1-133.10","metadata":false},{"id":64982,"structure_id":15448,"section_number":"53.1-133.2","catch_line":"Establishment of jail industry programs","url":"\/53.1-133.2\/","token":"53.1\/3\/8\/53.1-133.2","metadata":false},{"id":70413,"structure_id":15448,"section_number":"53.1-133.3","catch_line":"Eligibility to participate","url":"\/53.1-133.3\/","token":"53.1\/3\/8\/53.1-133.3","metadata":false},{"id":68684,"structure_id":15448,"section_number":"53.1-133.4","catch_line":"Participant compensation","url":"\/53.1-133.4\/","token":"53.1\/3\/8\/53.1-133.4","metadata":false},{"id":63060,"structure_id":15448,"section_number":"53.1-133.5","catch_line":"Disposition of money collected and payment of expenses for jail industry program","url":"\/53.1-133.5\/","token":"53.1\/3\/8\/53.1-133.5","metadata":false},{"id":58843,"structure_id":15448,"section_number":"53.1-133.6","catch_line":"Restriction on sale of jail industry program goods and services; print shop","url":"\/53.1-133.6\/","token":"53.1\/3\/8\/53.1-133.6","metadata":false},{"id":72972,"structure_id":15448,"section_number":"53.1-133.7","catch_line":"Sale of artistic products","url":"\/53.1-133.7\/","token":"53.1\/3\/8\/53.1-133.7","metadata":false},{"id":62229,"structure_id":15448,"section_number":"53.1-133.8","catch_line":"Purchases by agencies, localities, and certain nonprofit organizations","url":"\/53.1-133.8\/","token":"53.1\/3\/8\/53.1-133.8","metadata":false},{"id":64668,"structure_id":15448,"section_number":"53.1-133.9","catch_line":"Charges; advertisement and marketing","url":"\/53.1-133.9\/","token":"53.1\/3\/8\/53.1-133.9","metadata":false}],"previous_section":{"id":81833,"structure_id":15448,"section_number":"53.1-133.1","catch_line":"Definition","url":"\/53.1-133.1\/","token":"53.1\/3\/8\/53.1-133.1","metadata":false},"next_section":{"id":64982,"structure_id":15448,"section_number":"53.1-133.2","catch_line":"Establishment of jail industry programs","url":"\/53.1-133.2\/","token":"53.1\/3\/8\/53.1-133.2","metadata":false},"metadata":false,"official_url":"https:\/\/law.lis.virginia.gov\/vacode\/53.1-133.10\/","history_text":"

This law was first created in 2013. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 138<\/a> of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":238853,"object_type":"law","relational_id":73033,"identifier":"53.1-133.10","token":"53.1\/3\/8\/53.1-133.10","url":"\/53.1-133.10\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/53.1-133.10\/","token":"53.1\/3\/8\/53.1-133.10","dublin_core":{"Title":"(See Editor’s note) Compact; transport of prisoners to and from medical facilities across state boundaries; Governor to execute","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 53.1-133.10","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

The Governor is authorized and requested to execute, on behalf of the Commonwealth, with any other state<\/span> or states<\/span> legally joining therein a compact that shall be in form substantially as follows:\n\t\tThe compacting states<\/span> solemnly agree that:\n\t\tARTICLE I.\n\t\tThe party<\/span> states<\/span>, desiring by common action to efficiently utilize and provide emergency medical, dental, and psychiatric care for prisoners<\/span> of local correctional facilities, declare that it is the policy of each of the party<\/span> states<\/span> to cooperate with one another to serve the best interests of the prisoners<\/span> and of the state<\/span> and local governments in the convenient and economical provision of these services. The purpose of this compact is to provide for the mutual recognition of the control and authority over prisoners<\/span> during transport to and from medical, dental, and psychiatric facilities across state<\/span> boundaries.\n\t\tARTICLE II.\n\t\tAs used in this compact, unless the context clearly requires otherwise:<\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

1.<\/span> “State<\/span>” means a state<\/span> of the United States<\/span>, the United States<\/span> of America, a territory or possession<\/span> of the United States<\/span>, the District of Columbia, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

2.<\/span> “Sending state<\/span>” means a state party<\/span> to this compact in which a prisoner<\/span> in need of medical, dental, or psychiatric services is incarcerated. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

3.<\/span> “Receiving state<\/span>” means a state party<\/span> to this compact in which is located a medical, dental, or psychiatric facility. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

4.<\/span> “Prisoner<\/span>” means a male or female offender who is committed under sentence to or confined in a local correctional facility<\/span>. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

5.<\/span> “Local correctional facility<\/span>” means any penal or correctional facility or any jail, regional jail, jail farm, or other place used for the detention or incarceration of adult offenders that is owned, maintained, or operated by any political subdivision or combination of subdivisions of a state or a local government of a state.\n\t\t\tARTICLE III.\n\t\t\tEach party<\/span> state agrees to extend all necessary authority to law<\/span>-enforcement or corrections officers from a sending state<\/span> while such officers have in their custody<\/span> a prisoner<\/span> for the purpose of escorting the prisoner<\/span> to and from a medical, dental, or psychiatric facility located in the receiving state<\/span>.\n\t\t\tARTICLE IV.\n\t\t\tThis compact shall enter into force and become effective and binding upon the states<\/span> so acting when it has been enacted into law<\/span> by any two states<\/span>. Thereafter, this compact shall enter into force and become effective and binding as to any other of said states<\/span> upon similar action by such state.\n\t\t\tARTICLE V.\n\t\t\tThis compact shall continue in force and remain binding upon a party<\/span> state until the party<\/span> state has enacted a statute<\/span> repealing the same and providing for the sending of formal written notice of withdrawal from the compact to the appropriate official of all other party<\/span> states<\/span>. No actual withdrawal shall take effect until one year after the notice provided in said statute<\/span> has been sent. Such withdrawal shall not relieve the withdrawing state from its obligations assumed hereunder prior to the effective date of withdrawal. Before the effective date of withdrawal, a withdrawing state shall remove to its territory, at its own expense, such inmates as it may have confined pursuant to the provisions of this compact.\n\t\t\tARTICLE VI.\n\t\t\tThe provisions of this compact shall be liberally construed and shall be severable. If any phrase, clause, sentence, or provision of this compact is declared to be contrary to the constitution of any participating state or of the United States<\/span> or the applicability thereof to any government, agency, person, or circumstance is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of this compact and the applicability thereof to any government, agency, person, or circumstance shall not be affected thereby. If this compact is held contrary to the constitution of any state participating therein, the compact shall remain in full force and effect as to the remaining states<\/span> and in full force and effect as to the state affected as to all severable matters. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\n(SEE EDITOR’S NOTE) COMPACT; TRANSPORT OF PRISONERS TO AND FROM MEDICAL\nFACILITIES ACROSS STATE BOUNDARIES; GOVERNOR TO EXECUTE (\u00a7 53.1-133.10)\n\nThe Governor is authorized and requested to execute, on behalf of the\nCommonwealth, with any other state or states legally joining therein a compact\nthat shall be in form substantially as follows:\n\t\tThe compacting states solemnly agree that:\n\t\tARTICLE I.\n\t\tThe party states, desiring by common action to efficiently utilize and provide\nemergency medical, dental, and psychiatric care for prisoners of local\ncorrectional facilities, declare that it is the policy of each of the party\nstates to cooperate with one another to serve the best interests of the\nprisoners and of the state and local governments in the convenient and\neconomical provision of these services. The purpose of this compact is to\nprovide for the mutual recognition of the control and authority over prisoners\nduring transport to and from medical, dental, and psychiatric facilities across\nstate boundaries.\n\t\tARTICLE II.\n\t\tAs used in this compact, unless the context clearly requires otherwise:\n\n1. “State” means a state of the United States, the United States of\nAmerica, a territory or possession of the United States, the District of\nColumbia, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.\n\n2. “Sending state” means a state party to this compact in which a\nprisoner in need of medical, dental, or psychiatric services is incarcerated.\n\n3. “Receiving state” means a state party to this compact in which is\nlocated a medical, dental, or psychiatric facility.\n\n4. “Prisoner” means a male or female offender who is committed under\nsentence to or confined in a local correctional facility.\n\n5. “Local correctional facility” means any penal or correctional\nfacility or any jail, regional jail, jail farm, or other place used for the\ndetention or incarceration of adult offenders that is owned, maintained, or\noperated by any political subdivision or combination of subdivisions of a state\nor a local government of a state.\n\t\t\tARTICLE III.\n\t\t\tEach party state agrees to extend all necessary authority to law-enforcement\nor corrections officers from a sending state while such officers have in their\ncustody a prisoner for the purpose of escorting the prisoner to and from a\nmedical, dental, or psychiatric facility located in the receiving state.\n\t\t\tARTICLE IV.\n\t\t\tThis compact shall enter into force and become effective and binding upon the\nstates so acting when it has been enacted into law by any two states.\nThereafter, this compact shall enter into force and become effective and binding\nas to any other of said states upon similar action by such state.\n\t\t\tARTICLE V.\n\t\t\tThis compact shall continue in force and remain binding upon a party state\nuntil the party state has enacted a statute repealing the same and providing for\nthe sending of formal written notice of withdrawal from the compact to the\nappropriate official of all other party states. No actual withdrawal shall take\neffect until one year after the notice provided in said statute has been sent.\nSuch withdrawal shall not relieve the withdrawing state from its obligations\nassumed hereunder prior to the effective date of withdrawal. Before the\neffective date of withdrawal, a withdrawing state shall remove to its territory,\nat its own expense, such inmates as it may have confined pursuant to the\nprovisions of this compact.\n\t\t\tARTICLE VI.\n\t\t\tThe provisions of this compact shall be liberally construed and shall be\nseverable. If any phrase, clause, sentence, or provision of this compact is\ndeclared to be contrary to the constitution of any participating state or of the\nUnited States or the applicability thereof to any government, agency, person, or\ncircumstance is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of this compact and\nthe applicability thereof to any government, agency, person, or circumstance\nshall not be affected thereby. If this compact is held contrary to the\nconstitution of any state participating therein, the compact shall remain in\nfull force and effect as to the remaining states and in full force and effect as\nto the state affected as to all severable matters.\n\nHISTORY: 2013, c. 138.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}