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Such payments shall include only the reasonable costs of guarding and providing necessary housing, maintenance, administrative expenses, food, clothing, medicine and medical attention for such prisoners. 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This law was first created in 1994. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 715<\/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":[{"id":73366,"section_number":"53.1-80","catch_line":"State reimbursement of localities for construction","order_by":null,"url":"\/53.1-80\/"}],"permalink":{"id":238335,"object_type":"law","relational_id":68905,"identifier":"53.1-71.6","token":"53.1\/3\/1.1\/53.1-71.6","url":"\/53.1-71.6\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/53.1-71.6\/","token":"53.1\/3\/1.1\/53.1-71.6","dublin_core":{"Title":"State reimbursement to localities","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 53.1-71.6","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

A.<\/span> Reimbursement to participating localities for the cost of construction shall be made pursuant to Article 3 (§ 53.1-80<\/a> et seq.) of Chapter 3 of Title 53.1. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

B.<\/span> The manner of state payment to the localities for the care and custody<\/span> costs at the facility of persons accused<\/span> or convicted of any offense<\/span> against the laws<\/span> of the Commonwealth shall be as provided in the general appropriation act. Such payments shall include only the reasonable costs of guarding and providing necessary housing, maintenance, administrative expenses, food, clothing, medicine and medical attention for such prisoners. However, in no event shall the payment to the localities, when calculated on a per diem per prisoner basis, exceed the total cost ordinarily paid by the Commonwealth to a locality for prisoner care and custody<\/span> expenses, when calculated on a per diem per prisoner basis. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nSTATE REIMBURSEMENT TO LOCALITIES (\u00a7 53.1-71.6)\n\nA. Reimbursement to participating localities for the cost of construction shall\nbe made pursuant to Article 3 (§ 53.1-80 et seq.) of Chapter 3 of Title\n53.1.\n\nB. The manner of state payment to the localities for the care and custody costs\nat the facility of persons accused or convicted of any offense against the laws\nof the Commonwealth shall be as provided in the general appropriation act. Such\npayments shall include only the reasonable costs of guarding and providing\nnecessary housing, maintenance, administrative expenses, food, clothing,\nmedicine and medical attention for such prisoners. However, in no event shall\nthe payment to the localities, when calculated on a per diem per prisoner basis,\nexceed the total cost ordinarily paid by the Commonwealth to a locality for\nprisoner care and custody expenses, when calculated on a per diem per prisoner\nbasis.\n\nHISTORY: 1994, c. 715.","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}}