Chap. 220.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 13 of Chapter 217 of the Acts
of Assembly ot 1942, approved March 13, 1942, relating to consolidated jails
and jail farms. [S 236]

Approved March 15, 1944

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That section thirteen of chapter two hundred seventeen of the
Acts of Assembly of nineteen hundred forty-two, approved March thir-
teen, nineteen hundred forty-two, be amended and re-enacted, as follows:

Section 13. Consolidated jails and jail farms.—(a) Any two or
more counties, any two or more cities, or any one or more counties and
any one or more cities, acting through their respective governing bodies,
are hereby authorized to effect an agreement for the joint use, mainten-
ance and operation of the jail or jail farm of any one or more, or all of
them, or for the construction, maintenance and operation of a consoli-
dated jail or jail farm. Every such agreement shall be made subject to
the approval of the Board.

(b) The use, construction, maintenance and operation of each such
jail and of each such jail farm shall conform to such standards as are
prescribed by the Board.

(c) Except insofar as the same are inconsistent with the provisions
of this act, other provisions of law in relation to the construction, in-
spection and maintenance of jails and jail farms shall apply to each jail
and to each jail farm used, constructed, maintained or operated pursuant
to the provisions of this section.

(d) In the event a person committed to any such consolidated jail
or jail farm, to be there confined until he pays the fine and costs imposed
upon him by the court in which he was tried, should desire to pay such
fine and costs, he may pay the same to the person in charge of the jail
or jail farm, who shall execute and deliver his official receipt therefor,
and shall promptly transmit the amount so paid to the clerk of the court
which imposed the fine and costs.

(e) In the event the person in charge of the jail or jail farm be
not a bonded officer having authority to collect fines and costs, he shall,
before receiving any such fine and costs, execute before the clerk of the
circuit court of the county, or the clerk of the appropriate court of the
city in which the jail or jail farm is located, a bond in such penalty as
may be prescribed by the judge of such court, with approved security
and conditioned according to law.

2. An emergency existing this act shall be in force from the date
of its passage.