                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

(SEE EDITOR&#8217;S NOTE) COMPACT; TRANSPORT OF PRISONERS TO AND FROM MEDICAL
FACILITIES ACROSS STATE BOUNDARIES; GOVERNOR TO EXECUTE (§ 53.1-133.10)

The Governor is authorized and requested to execute, on behalf of the
Commonwealth, with any other state or states legally joining therein a compact
that shall be in form substantially as follows:
		The compacting states solemnly agree that:
		ARTICLE I.
		The party states, desiring by common action to efficiently utilize and provide
emergency medical, dental, and psychiatric care for prisoners of local
correctional facilities, declare that it is the policy of each of the party
states to cooperate with one another to serve the best interests of the
prisoners and of the state and local governments in the convenient and
economical provision of these services. The purpose of this compact is to
provide for the mutual recognition of the control and authority over prisoners
during transport to and from medical, dental, and psychiatric facilities across
state boundaries.
		ARTICLE II.
		As used in this compact, unless the context clearly requires otherwise:

1. &#8220;State&#8221; means a state of the United States, the United States of
America, a territory or possession of the United States, the District of
Columbia, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

2. &#8220;Sending state&#8221; means a state party to this compact in which a
prisoner in need of medical, dental, or psychiatric services is incarcerated.

3. &#8220;Receiving state&#8221; means a state party to this compact in which is
located a medical, dental, or psychiatric facility.

4. &#8220;Prisoner&#8221; means a male or female offender who is committed under
sentence to or confined in a local correctional facility.

5. &#8220;Local correctional facility&#8221; means any penal or correctional
facility or any jail, regional jail, jail farm, or other place used for the
detention or incarceration of adult offenders that is owned, maintained, or
operated by any political subdivision or combination of subdivisions of a state
or a local government of a state.
			ARTICLE III.
			Each party state agrees to extend all necessary authority to law-enforcement
or corrections officers from a sending state while such officers have in their
custody a prisoner for the purpose of escorting the prisoner to and from a
medical, dental, or psychiatric facility located in the receiving state.
			ARTICLE IV.
			This compact shall enter into force and become effective and binding upon the
states so acting when it has been enacted into law by any two states.
Thereafter, this compact shall enter into force and become effective and binding
as to any other of said states upon similar action by such state.
			ARTICLE V.
			This compact shall continue in force and remain binding upon a party state
until the party state has enacted a statute repealing the same and providing for
the sending of formal written notice of withdrawal from the compact to the
appropriate official of all other party states. No actual withdrawal shall take
effect until one year after the notice provided in said statute has been sent.
Such withdrawal shall not relieve the withdrawing state from its obligations
assumed hereunder prior to the effective date of withdrawal. Before the
effective date of withdrawal, a withdrawing state shall remove to its territory,
at its own expense, such inmates as it may have confined pursuant to the
provisions of this compact.
			ARTICLE VI.
			The provisions of this compact shall be liberally construed and shall be
severable. If any phrase, clause, sentence, or provision of this compact is
declared to be contrary to the constitution of any participating state or of the
United States or the applicability thereof to any government, agency, person, or
circumstance is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of this compact and
the applicability thereof to any government, agency, person, or circumstance
shall not be affected thereby. If this compact is held contrary to the
constitution of any state participating therein, the compact shall remain in
full force and effect as to the remaining states and in full force and effect as
to the state affected as to all severable matters.

HISTORY: 2013, c. 138.