Title 12, Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs

(a) As the county jail board shall determine, the bonds may:(1) Be coupon bonds, payable to bearer, or be registrable as to the principal only, or be registrable as to both principal and interest;(2) Contain exchange provisions;(3) Be in a form and denomination as the board deter…

The bonds may be sold in such manner and at such price, including sale at a discount, as the county jail board may accept.

(a) Bonds issued pursuant to this subchapter shall be executed by the chair of the county jail board and the secretary of the board by manual or facsimile signature with at least one (1) manual signature. (b) The coupons attached to the bonds shall be executed by the facsimile si…

(a) Bonds issued pursuant to this subchapter shall be obligations only of the county jail board, and in no event shall they constitute any indebtedness for which the faith and credit of the county issuing the bonds or any of its revenues, or of the state or any of its revenues, a…

(a) The principal, premiums, if any, interest, and trustee's and paying agent's fees in connection with all bonds issued under this subchapter shall be secured by a lien on and pledge of the fee revenues and the gross revenues derived from the fees levied under the provisions of …

Bonds issued under the provisions of this subchapter, and the interest thereon, shall be exempt from all state, county, and municipal taxes, and this exemption shall include income, inheritance, and estate taxes.

(a) Any municipality, or any board, commission, or other governing authority established by ordinance of any municipality, or the governing authorities, respectively, of the local firefighters pension and relief fund and police officer's pension and relief fund of any such munici…

This subchapter shall not create any right of any character, and no right of any character shall arise under the provisions of this subchapter, unless and until the bonds authorized by this subchapter, or the initial series, shall have been sold and delivered by the county jail b…

(1) As used in this subchapter:(1) “Board” means the county jail board, municipal jail board, or public instrumentality jail board, as the case may be, established by ordinance or resolution of the quorum court of the county or the governing body of the municipality or public ins…

The method set forth in this subchapter for construction, renovation, or expansion of jails shall be supplemental to any other method authorized by law for construction, renovation, or expansion of jails.

Any county quorum court or governing body of a municipality or public instrumentality desiring to construct, renovate, or expand a jail in the manner authorized in this subchapter may adopt an ordinance or resolution to establish a county jail board, municipal jail board, or publ…

(a) (1) Any county, municipality, or public instrumentality electing to form a county jail board, municipal jail board, or public instrumentality jail board for the purpose of issuing bonds under the provisions of this subchapter, shall, by ordinance or resolution adopted by the …

The county jail board, municipal jail board, or public instrumentality jail board is authorized and empowered to issue bonds at one (1) time or in series from time to time and to use the proceeds thereof, together with any other funds, for financing the cost of construction, reno…

(a) The bonds shall be authorized by resolution of the county jail board, municipal jail board, or public instrumentality jail board. (b) The authorizing resolution, as the board shall determine, may contain any terms, covenants, and conditions that are deemed necessary or desira…

(a) Together with this subchapter and the ordinance or resolution of the quorum court or the governing body of the municipality or public instrumentality acting pursuant to this subchapter, each authorizing resolution or trust indenture shall constitute a contract by and between …

(a) As the county jail board, municipal jail board, or public instrumentality jail board shall determine, the bonds:(1) Shall be registrable as to both principal and interest;(2) May contain exchange provisions;(3) May be in a form and denomination as the board determines;(4) May…

(a) The bonds may be sold in such manner and at such prices, including sale at discount, as the county jail board, municipal jail board, or public instrumentality jail board may accept. (b) The proceeds derived from the sale of revenue bonds by the board under the provisions of t…

(a) Bonds issued pursuant to this subchapter shall bear the manual or facsimile signature of the presiding officer of the county jail board, municipal jail board, or public instrumentality jail board and the manual authenticating signature of the trustee or paying agent of the bo…

(a) (1) Bonds issued pursuant to this subchapter shall be obligations only of the issuing county jail board, municipal jail board, or public instrumentality jail board.(2) In no event shall they constitute any indebtedness for which the faith and credit of the county, municipalit…

(a) (1) The principal, premiums, if any, interest on, and trustees' and paying agents' fees in connection with all bonds issued under this subchapter shall be secured by a lien on and pledge of:(A) The fee revenues and the gross revenues derived from revenues collected from fines…

Bonds and other evidences of indebtedness issued under the provisions of this subchapter and the interest thereon shall be exempt from all state, county, and municipal taxes, and this exemption shall include income, inheritance, and state taxes.

(a) Any municipality, board, commission, governing authority established by ordinance of any municipality, or governing authorities, respectively, of the local firefighter's pension and relief fund and police officer's pension and relief fund of any such municipality, the governi…

(a) Any county, municipality, or public instrumentality may, by ordinance or resolution, provide that all or any identified portion of the revenues derived by the county, municipality, or public instrumentality from all or any identified portion of the fines or penalties as defin…

In addition to any other purposes for which funds in a county jail board jail fund, municipal jail board jail fund, or public instrumentality jail board jail fund may be used, the funds may be used for the transportation and supervision of inmates assigned to outside work project…

(a) Each county, municipality, public instrumentality, and other governmental entity of this state is authorized and empowered, upon ordinance or resolution of the governing body, to enter into long-term or short-term contracts with a county jail board, municipal jail board, or p…

(a) Except as provided under § 12-41-702, the provisions of this subchapter are intended to solely and exclusively govern the manner in which a county jail board, municipal jail board, or public instrumentality jail board is organized, operated, managed, and administered. (b) No …

Any municipality, county, public instrumentality, or other governmental entity may pledge all or any portion of its fines, penalties, bonds against fines, court costs, filing fees, other court fees, and other sums payable by judicial order, statute, ordinance, or otherwise impose…

This subchapter shall be referred to and may be cited as the “Juvenile Detention Facilities Cooperative Development and Operations Act”.

(a) The General Assembly finds that adequate juvenile detention facilities are essential to the safety and welfare of the people of this state. (b) It is legislatively determined that adequate juvenile detention facilities need to be made available and that a feasible and economi…

(1) As used in this subchapter:(1) “Governing body” means the:(A) City council or board of directors or comparable body for a city;(B) Town council or board of directors or comparable body for a town; and(C) Quorum court for a county;(2) “Juvenile detention facility” means any fa…

(a) Local governmental units are authorized to cooperate with other localities on a basis of mutual advantage and thereby to provide services and facilities in a manner and pursuant to forms of governmental organization that will accord best with geographic, economic, population,…

(a) (1) Grant and loan funds shall only be awarded under this subchapter upon submission of evidence of the ability to provide an amount of local public or private dollars, or both, equal to or greater than one-third (⅓) of the state's capital grant contribution to any project.(2…

(a) There is hereby established an operating fund account not to exceed the amount of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) per annum, the express purpose of which is to provide a supplement to the local operations fund for the continuing operation of secure facilities for juv…

Any loan balances accrued pursuant to the revolving loan fund account are abated.

(a) Juvenile detention centers or juvenile detention facilities shall operate to provide pretrial detention and short-term sanctions as provided for in § 9-35-423. (b) The Division of Youth Services has no obligation to utilize or fund juvenile detention centers or juvenile deten…

(a) Funds appropriated to the Department of Corrections for the transportation of juveniles shall be used to provide grants and reimbursements to local government units that have juvenile detention facilities for the transportation of juvenile offenders to the appropriate care or…