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2012 SESSION
12101292DBe it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 19.2-338 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 19.2-338. Collection by locality of cost of transporting prisoners.
(1)A. Notwithstanding any
provision of any charter or any law to the contrary, any town locality may provide, by ordinance, that any person
convicted of violating any state law or ordinance
of the town may locality 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, or holding area or cell. The
cost of such transportation shall be taxed as a part
of the costs payable by persons
convicted of violating such ordinances.
(2)B. No officer transporting any
person so convicted of violating any
ordinance of the town, as provided in subsection (1) hereof A,
shall charge or be paid, nor shall such town locality receive, directly or indirectly, more
than the cost of transporting such person when more than one person is
transported.