CODE OF VIRGINIA

CONSTRUCTION, ETC., OF DETENTION HOMES AND OTHER FACILITIES; REIMBURSEMENT IN
PART BY COMMONWEALTH (§ 16.1-309.5)

A. The Commonwealth shall reimburse any county, city or any combination thereof
for one-half the cost of construction, enlargement, renovation, purchase or
rental of a detention home or other facilities the plans and specifications of
which were approved by the Board and the Governor in accordance with the
provisions of subsection C of this section.

B. The construction, renovation, purchase, rental, maintenance and operation of
a detention home or other facilities established by a county, city or any
combination thereof and the necessary expenses incurred in operating such
facilities shall be the responsibility of the county, city or any combination
thereof.

C. The Board shall promulgate regulations to include criteria to serve as
guidelines in evaluating requests for such reimbursements and to ensure the
geographically equitable distribution of state funds provided for such purpose.
Priority funding shall be given to multijurisdictional initiatives. No such
reimbursement for costs of construction shall be made, however, unless the plans
and specifications, including the need for additional personnel therefor, have
been submitted to the Governor and the construction has been approved by him.
Such reimbursement shall be paid by the State Treasurer out of funds
appropriated to the Department. In the event that a county or city requests and
receives financial assistance from other public fund sources outside the
provisions of this law, the total financial assistance and reimbursement shall
not exceed the total construction cost of the project exclusive of land and site
improvement costs, and such funds shall not be considered state funds.

HISTORY: 1995, cc. 698, 840; 2000, cc. 562, 601.