CODE OF VIRGINIA

COMPENSATION OF LOCAL JAILS FOR COST OF INCARCERATION (§ 53.1-20.1)

If the Director is unable to accommodate in a state correctional facility any
convicted felon sentenced to the Department for a felony committed before
January 1, 1995, whose sentence totals more than two years or who is convicted
of a felony committed on or after January 1, 1995, and who is required to serve
a total period of one year or more in a state correctional facility, the
Department of Corrections shall compensate local jails for the cost of
incarceration as provided for in the general appropriation act beginning on the
sixty-first day following the date of mailing by certified letter or electronic
transmittal by the clerk of the committing court to the Director of the final
order.

HISTORY: 1982, c. 680; 1990, cc. 676, 768; 1994, 2nd Sp. Sess., cc. 1, 2; 1997,
c. 775.