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Volume 1968 Law 99
Volume | 1968 |
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Law Number | 603 |
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Law Body
CHAPTER 603
An Act to amend and reenact § 58-147 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to consolidated jails and jail farms. rH 781)
Approved April 4, 1968
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 53-147 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted
as follows:
§ 53-147. 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, maintenance and oper-
ation of the jail or jail farm of any one or more, or all of them, or for
the construction, maintenance and operation of a consolidated jail or jail
farms. 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 section, other provisions of law in relation to the construction,
inspection 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 und costs, he shall, before
recelving 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 pre-
scribed by the judge of such court, with approved security and conditioned
according to law.
(f) The governing bodies of the counties and cities are hereby empow-
ered to select either a sergeant of a city or a sheriff of a county involved
in such consolidation as the officer charged with the operation and main-
tenance of such consolidated jail.