                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

ESTABLISHMENT OF JAIL INDUSTRY PROGRAMS (§ 53.1-133.2)

The sheriff or jail superintendent operating a local correctional facility, with
the approval of the local governing body, jail farm board, or regional jail or
jail farm board or regional jail authority, as the case may be, is authorized to
establish a jail industry program within the facility he administers or on
public property or works owned, leased or operated by the county, city, town or
federal government, whether the same be located within such county, city or town
or elsewhere. If elsewhere, the governing body of the locality where the
proposed jail industry program is to be established shall approve the location
of the program. Any such program shall be subject to the provisions of this
article and shall not be established, operated, maintained or otherwise
supported by state funds except as provided in § 53.1-133.6.

HISTORY: 1992, c. 859; 1995, c. 756.