                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO JAIL FARMS OF COUNTIES AND CITIES (§ 53.1-95)

A. When the control, management and supervision of the jail farm of any county
or city is not vested in the sheriff of such county or city, such county or city
shall be paid out of state funds pursuant to &#xA7; 53.1-85 for the care and
custody at such jail farm of persons accused or convicted of any offense against
the laws of the Commonwealth, and witnesses held in cases to which the
Commonwealth is a party. Such payments shall include only the reasonable cost of
guarding, and providing necessary housing, maintenance, administrative expenses,
food, clothing, medicine and medical attention for such prisoners.

A1. Such county or city may also collect from other counties, cities or towns of
the Commonwealth for which any prisoner is held at the jail farm of such county
or city the reasonable cost of feeding, clothing, caring for and furnishing
medicine and medical attention for such prisoner, and maintenance and
administrative costs of the facility on a per prisoner basis. As used in this
section, the term &#8220;reasonable cost&#8221; means an amount not to exceed
actual costs, including depreciation, less such amounts as may be paid by the
Commonwealth pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA7; 15.2-1609.8 and 53.1-85.

B. When the control, management and supervision of the jail farm of any county
or city is not vested in the sheriff of such county or city, the county or city
may collect from the United States, for prisoners of the United States at the
jail farm, such amounts as may be agreed upon by the county or city and the
appropriate authorities of the Government of the United States, which amounts
shall not be less than the actual cost of feeding, clothing and caring for such
prisoners. Such county or city may collect from any state, other than this
Commonwealth, and from any country other than the United States, for which any
prisoner is held at the jail farm of such county or city, the cost of guarding,
and providing necessary food, clothing, medicine and medical attention for
prisoners held for such other state or country. The amount thereof shall be
agreed upon by the governmental units involved.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 53-188; 1960, c. 411; 1982, c. 636; 1983, c. 358.