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1996 SESSION


CHAPTER 669
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Chapter 11 of Title 53.1 a section numbered 53.1-228.1, relating to payment for damaged jail and prison property.
[S 54]
Approved April 6, 1996

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding in Chapter 11 of Title 53.1 a section numbered 53.1-228.1 as follows:

§ 53.1-228.1. Inmate payment for damaged property.

The Board, and each jail superintendent or sheriff who operates a correctional facility, are authorized to establish administrative procedures for recovering, from an inmate, the cost of replacing or repairing any facility-owned or facility-issued property which is proven to have been intentionally damaged or destroyed by the inmate. Such administrative procedures shall ensure that the inmate is afforded due process.