Chap. 104.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections one, three and five of an
act entitled an act to authorize the counties and cities of the State to establish
county or city farms, and providing for the use of the same, and for the
government and support of persons confined therein, approved March 24,
1922. [S B 216]

Approved March 6, 1930

I. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tions one, three and five of an act entitled an act to authorize the
counties and cities of the State to establish county or city farms, and
providing for the use of the same, and for the government and sup-
port of persons confined therein, approved March twenty-fourth, nine-
teen hundred and twenty-two, be amended and re-enacted so as to
read as follows:
Section 1. That the board of supervisors of any county or the
council of any city of this State may, within their respective jurisdic-
tions, or elsewhere, establish and maintain a farm where any person
convicted of a misdemeanor or a violation of a city ordinance and 1s
sentenced to confinement in the jail of such county or city, or is sen-
tenced to the State convict road force, or is sentenced to be confined
in jail or held in the State convict road force for failure to pay any
fine or cost or execute any bond as provided by law, may be confined
and required to do such work as may be assigned him or her during
the term of sentence aforesaid, under such rules and regulations as
may be prescribed by such board of supervisors or council or the farm
board appointed to manage said farm.

That the board of supervisors of such county or the council or
city manager of such city establishing and maintaining such farm may
appoint a superintendent of such farm and necessary guards therefor,
who shall serve as such for such length of time as said board of super-
visors or council or city manager may designate, or until their removal,
or until others are appointed in the place.

That said superintendent shall have and exercise the same control
and authority over the prisoners committed or transferred to such
farm as the jailors of this State have by law over the prisoners com-
mitted or transferred to their jails.

That during the term of their appointment the said superintendent
and guards shall, within the limits of such farm and within one mile
thereof, whether such farm is situated within or beyond the limits
of such county or city establishing and maintaining the same, and in
conveying prisoners to and from such farm, have, and they are hereby
invested with all of the powers and authority which pertain to the
office of constable at common law, except they shall not have authority
to execute civil process.

That before entering upon the duties of their office, said superin-
tendent and guards shall take and subscribe the oath prescribed by sec-
tion two hundred and sixty-nine of the Code of Virginia; and they
shall also, if required by the board of supervisors of the county or the
council or city manager of the city maintaining such farm, give bond
in such penalty and with such security as such board of supervisors or
council or city manager may prescribe, conditioned to faithfully dis-
charge the duties of their office.

Section 3. That whenever any person is convicted of a mis-
demeanor or a violation of a city ordinance, in any court or by any judge
or justice in any county or city maintaining such farm, and is required
by law to be sentenced to confinement in jail, or to the State convict
road force, or to be held in jail or in the State convict road force
for the failure to pay any fine or cost or to execute any bond as pro-
vided by law, the court, judge or justice before whom such conviction
is had may, in its or his discretion, sentence such person to confine-
ment at such farm instead of in jail or to said State convict road
force.
All prisoners so convicted and sentenced or transferred to such
farm shall be required to work on such farm, unless for good cause
shown the court, judge or justice so sentencing and committing such
prisoners shall otherwise order.

That all prisoners so convicted and sentenced or transferred to
such farm may thereafter be sent to and be required to work on the
State convict road force in the manner provided by law in case of
prisoners confined in the jails of this State.

Section 5. That the State shall pay such county or city main-
taining such farm for prisoners sentenced and committed for viola-
tions of the State laws the same fees and expenses now or hereafter
allowed to jailors, which payment shall be made when approved and
certified by the judge of the circuit court of the county or the cor-
poration court of the city maintaining such farm.