                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

COLLECTION BY TOWN OF COST OF TRANSPORTING PRISONERS (§ 19.2-338)

1. Notwithstanding any provision of any charter or any law to the contrary, any
town may provide that any person convicted of violating any ordinance of the
town may be charged, in addition to all other costs, fines, fees and charges,
the costs of transporting such person so convicted to and from a jail or other
penal institution outside the corporate limits of such town designated by the
town as a place of confinement for persons arrested for violating the ordinances
of the town and required to be held in jail pending trial upon such charge. The
cost of such transportation shall be taxed as a part of the costs payable by
persons convicted of violating such ordinances.

2. No officer transporting any person convicted of violating any ordinance of
the town, as provided in subsection (1) hereof, shall charge or be paid, nor
shall such town receive directly or indirectly, more than the cost of
transporting such person when more than one person is transported.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 19.1-322; 1960, c. 366; 1975, c. 495; 1995, c. 51.