Chap. 36.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4960 of the Code of Virginia,
as heretofore amended, in relation to the compensation of sheriffs or other per-
sons in certain criminal cases and the compensation allowed hospitals for the
treatment of prisoners, so as to provide that compensation paid such sheriffs
and certain other persons under the provisions of this section shall be limited
to amounts due for services rendered within the State of Virginia. [H B 57]

Approved February 12, 1940

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That
section forty-nine hundred and sixty of the Code of Virginia, as here-
tofore amended, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 4960. <A sheriff or other officer, for traveling out of his
county or corporation but within the State of Virginia to execute
process in a criminal case, and doing any act in the service thereof,
for which no other compensation is provided, shall receive therefor,
out of the treasury, such compensation as the court from which the
process issued may certify to be reasonable. When in a criminal case
an officer or any person renders any other service in the State of
Virginia for which no specific compensation is provided, the court in
which such case is, may allow therefor what it deems reasonable, and
such allowance shall be paid out of the treasury from the appropria-
tion for criminal charges on the certificate of the court stating the
nature of the service. This section shall not prevent any payment
under section twenty-one hundred and seventy-six, which could have
been made if this section had not been enacted.

Provided, however, that the amount of compensation to officers
for execution of process, outside of the respective counties of such
officers, shall not exceed the fees or allowances now provided by law
for the execution of process within a county including the provision
for the allowance of mileage for officers and prisoners within a county;
and, provided further, that not more than eight cents per mile shall
be allowed for officers using automobiles for travel, irrespective of
the number of guards or prisoners conveyed in automobiles.

It is further provided that no compensation shall be allowed
hospitals for the treatment of prisoners unless application shall have
been made to the superintendent of the penitentiary, or to the super-
intendent of the State farm, for the admission of prisoners to the
hospital wards of said institutions and such application refused,
unless the disease, or wound, or accident, from which the prisoner is
suffering is of such an emergency kind that immediate treatment in
the hospital is necessary, and then only such amounts shall be allowed
to the hospitals as shall have been incurred before it is practicable
to remove the prisoner from the hospital to one of the institutions
above mentioned. |