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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>55262</law_id><section_number>53.1-115</section_number><catch_line>Payment of salaries of superintendents and medical and treatment personnel</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="53.1">Prisons and Other Methods of Correction</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="3">Local Correctional Facilities</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="5">Regional Jails and Jail Farms</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The Commonwealth shall pay two-thirds of the salaries of the superintendents and approved medical and treatment personnel of such jails. The other one-third shall be paid pro rata by the participating political subdivisions. Such salaries shall be paid in the manner provided in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Sheriffs' salaries; salaries of certain full-time deputies; maximum limits" href="/15.2-1609.2/">15.2-1609.2</a>, and such section shall be applicable <span class="dictionary">mutatis mutandis</span> to superintendents of such jails.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 53-206.12; 1970, c. 706; 1982, c. 636; 1983, c. 358.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
