CHAPTER 603

AN ACT to authorize towns to tax and collect as part of the costs in
criminal cases involving violations of the ordinances of such towns
the costs of transporting persons arrested for violating, or convicted
of violating, such ordinances to a jail or other penal institution out-
side the corporate limits of any such town; and to prescribe the fees
in connection therewith.

[S 259}

Approved March 29, 1958

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. § 1. Notwithstanding any provision of any charter or any law to
the contrary, any town may provide that any person convicted of violating
any ordinance of the town may be charged, in addition to all other costs,
fines, fees and charges, the costs of transporting such person so convicted
to and from a jail or other penal institution outside the corporate limits
of such town designated by the town as a place of confinement for persons
arrested for violating the ordinances of the town and required to be held
in jail pending trial upon such charge. The cost of such transportation
shall be taxed as a part of the costs payable by persons convicted of
violating such ordinances and the costs shall be taxed in accordance with
the schedules provided in §§ 14-116 and 14-122 of the Code of Virginia.
No officer transporting any person convicted of violating any
ordinance of the town, as provided in § 1 hereof, shall charge or be paid,
nor shall such town receive directly or indirectly, more than the cost of
transporting such person when more than one person is transported.
2. An emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.