(A) The Quorum Court hereby finds that the daily average jail housing cost shall be $45 for room and board for each prisoner in the county jail. A DAY is defined to be immediately upon booking and then each 24-hour period thereafter.
(B) When each jail prisoner is delivered to court, the Sheriff or Sheriff’s Designee shall provide to the Prosecuting Attorney an invoice for the expenses in carrying the prisoner to jail and also for the prisoner’s support from the day of his or her initial incarceration and for the whole time he or she remained there, so that the Judge can hear the detainee’s side of the story regarding the imposition of the “Pay for Stay Ordinance” expenses as an additional element of cost to be assessed as part of the judgment upon conviction and reduce the assessed amount to judgment, as per A.C. § 12-41-505.
(C) Once the collectible expenses have been reduced to judgment, they shall be collected in the same manner as fines and court costs are collected, and the property of the detainee shall be subject to the payment of such expenses in accordance with A.C. § 12-41-505.
(D) The appropriate offices that handle such matters shall create a line item in the County Sheriff’s office jail revenue budget to address monies received under this section. The line item shall be entitled “Other Jail Sundry.”
(E) Revenues derived from the additional fines levied under this section shall not offset or reduce funding from other sources for the maintenance, operation, and capital expenditures of the county jail.
(Ord. 2005-5, passed 8-8-05)