                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

COST OF MAINTENANCE OF JAILS; PAYMENT BY LOCALITIES OF RESPECTIVE SHARES OF
COSTS; JUDICIAL RESOLUTION OF DISAGREEMENTS (§ 53.1-87)

A. In any instance in which a local correctional facility of a county, city or
town is designated by the Board as the place where prisoners committed by the
courts or other authorities of any other county, city or town shall be confined,
any capital outlay expenses incurred for necessary repairs, improvements or
additions to such facility, and all costs of maintenance of the facility
chargeable to the localities, shall be borne ratably by the several counties,
cities or towns using it.

B. The share of each respective county, city or town involved in such costs
shall be such proportion of the total cost of such repairs, improvements,
additions and other such costs as the total aggregate number of days spent in
local correctional facilities by prisoners committed by the courts or other
authorities of such county, city or town, for the five-year period next
preceding the year in which such repairs, improvements or additions are begun,
or other costs incurred, bears to the total aggregate number of days spent in
local correctional facilities by the prisoners committed by the courts or other
authorities of both or all of the counties, cities and towns using the facility
to which such repairs, improvements or additions are made or in which such other
costs are incurred. The amount to be paid by each county, city or town involved
shall be determined by the Board on the basis herein set forth.

C. The Board shall furnish a statement of the several shares of the cost so
determined to the governing body of each county, city and town involved, and the
respective shares shall be paid within thirty days from the date upon which such
statement is furnished. If the costs of any such repairs, improvements or
additions will not exceed $2000 they may be authorized by the governing body of
the county, city or town to whose correctional facility such repairs,
improvements or additions are to be made. If the costs will exceed $2000, such
repairs, improvements or additions shall be recommended by the Board and agreed
on in advance by the governing bodies of both or all of the counties, cities and
towns involved.
			In case of disagreement, the matter of the extent of the repairs,
improvements or additions and the proportionate cost to the respective
localities involved shall be determined by the circuit court of the locality
which owns or maintains the correctional institution proposed to be repaired,
improved or added to, upon the petition of the Board.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 53-136; 1970, c. 648; 1982, c. 636.