                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

PAYMENT OF COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH PRISONERS&#8217; KEEP (§ 53.1-131.3)

Any sheriff or jail superintendent may establish a program to charge inmates a
reasonable fee, not to exceed $3 per day, to defray the costs associated with
the prisoners&#8217; keep. The Board shall develop a model plan and adopt
regulations for such program, and shall provide assistance, if requested, to the
sheriff or jail superintendent in the implementation of such program. Such funds
shall be retained in the locality where the funds were collected and shall be
used for general jail purposes; however, in the event the jail is a regional
jail, funds collected from any such fee shall be retained by the regional jail.
Any person jailed for an offense they are later acquitted for shall be refunded
any such fees paid during their incarceration.

HISTORY: 2003, c. 860; 2009, c. 842; 2010, c. 548.