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2013 SESSION
13103577DBe 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 actual 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 actual cost of transporting
such person even when more than one person
is transported.