Title 41, Correctional Institutions and Inmates

(a) Any county is authorized to submit a plan to the commissioner in which it seeks to participate in the program. (b) The plan shall be submitted in the manner established pursuant to the rules promulgated by the commissioner pursuant to this chapter. (c) The plan shall be appro…

(a) No county shall be required to house convicted felons sentenced to more than one (1) year of continuous confinement unless the county, through the authority of its county legislative body, has chosen to contract with the department of correction for the purpose of housing cer…

(a) Participating counties having a facility that is not certified pursuant to the most recently established state jail standards shall not diminish their current level of spending for correctional expenses to the extent of any subsidy received pursuant to this chapter. The subsi…

(1) The commissioner is authorized and directed to promulgate rules in accordance with the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, compiled in title 4, chapter 5, for purposes including, but not limited to:(1) General administration of the county incentive program;(2) Requirements…

(a) The state funding board is authorized to make grants or loans, as funds are available, to any approved applicant county to assist that county in the construction or renovation of a correctional facility. (b) No county shall award any construction contract in reliance on a gra…

(a) For the purpose of providing moneys to assist approved applicant counties in financing capital improvements of correctional facilities, the state funding board, in addition to the powers otherwise granted by law, has the power and is authorized to issue from time to time dire…

(a) If the project is to be funded in whole or in part by a grant, the contract may include such provisions as may be agreed upon by the parties to the contract, and shall include in substance, the following provisions:(1) An agreement by the state to pay the county an amount up …

(a) The county shall pledge its full faith and credit for the repayment of a loan pursuant to this chapter. (b) In the event any county having entered into a loan contract pursuant to this chapter fails to remit funds in accordance with any amortization schedule established for t…

There is authorized to be established in the general fund of the state treasury a special account for depositing available funds under this chapter and for disbursing those funds to the counties that qualify for grants or loans under this chapter; provided, that the commissioner …

Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to limit the right of any county to accept any gift, grant or loan of funds or financial or other aid of any form that might otherwise be available to that county from the state or federal government or any agency of the state or federal…

The commissioner is authorized and empowered pursuant to the requirements of § 4-4-116 to seek and receive funds from the federal government that will augment the funds appropriated by the state to implement this chapter.

(a) The issuance and payment of bonds and bond anticipation notes and the administration of funds for the purpose of this chapter shall be in accordance with title 9, chapter 9. (b) It is the legislative intent that all bonds and bond anticipation notes issued pursuant to this ch…

A regional jail authority created pursuant to chapter 12 of this title is authorized to participate in the program created pursuant to this chapter in the same manner and to the same extent as counties are authorized to participate.