Chap. 348.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2075 of the Code of Virginia,
as amended, so as to provide for working certain prisoners confined in jail.

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Approved March 27, 1936

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
twenty hundred and seventy-five of the Code of Virginia, as amended,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 2075. Upon written request of the superintendent of the
penitentiary or of the board of supervisors of any county or the super-
visor of any magisterial district, the judge of the circuit court of any
county or the judge of the corporation court of any city shall, in term
or in vacation, unless any such prisoner shows the said judge good
cause to the contrary, order any male prisoner convicted of a misde-
meanor, or of any offense deemed infamous in law and sentenced to
confinement in jail as a punishment, or part punishment for such
offense or who is imprisoned for failure to pay any fine imposed upon
or assessed against him upon such conviction, or who is imprisoned
for a violation of an ordinance of any city or town which by said
ordinance is punishable by confinement in jail or fine, to be delivered
by the jailor of such county or city, to or upon the order of the super-
intendent of the penitentiary, to work in the State convict road force,
and in case of the request of the board of supervisors of a county or
the supervisor of a magisterial district, mayor or council of any city
or town to be delivered by the jailor of such county or city, to or upon
the order of the said board of supervisors of said county or of the said
supervisor of said magisterial district, to work under the direction of
the county road superintendent or road supervisor for said magisterial
district, or of such person or persons with whom said county or said
magisterial district may have a lawful contract or contracts, or to per-
form, under the direction and supervision of the board of supervisors,
such other types of public work as said board of supervisors may
require to be performed; provided, however, that no jailor of a city
shall deliver any prisoner, as aforesaid, to or upon the order of a board
of supervisors of a county or the supervisor of a magisterial district,
except the board of the county in which is located the city or the board
of a county adjoining the county in which is located the city or a
supervisor of a district in any of such counties, and when such request
has been so made by the superintendent of the penitentiary or by the
board of supervisors aforesaid, or supervisor of the magisterial district
aforesaid, it shall be deemed to be a continuing request until it has
been revoked by the authority making the same. No one so confined
who is under the age of eighteen years shall be so delivered, and the
delivery of any such one over the age of eighteen and under the age of
twenty-one years shall be discretionary with the court or judge, and
persons over the age of eighteen years imprisoned for violation of
city, town or county ordinances or sentenced to jail for not more than
thirty days for offenses against the Commonwealth or if for more than
thirty days, pending their delivery as members of the State convict
road force, shall be liable primarily to work on chain-gangs or public
works within such cities, towns or counties at the request of the proper
authorities thereof. Any person so sentenced to such chain-gang or
public works under this section shall have the right of appeal from
such sentence to the circuit or corporation court, as the case may be.
The written request of the superintendent of the penitentiary shall
have precedence over any other request provided for in this section.
When the superintendent of the penitentiary shall require any such
prisoner, before being transferred from jail to the State convict road
force, to be examined by a physician, the fee for such examination,
which shall not exceed two dollars and fifty cents in any case, shall be
paid by the State in the manner provided by law for the payment of
fees to physicians for attending prisoners in jail.