Mendocino County Municipal Code Ch. 5.92 Costs of Incarceration

This Chapter shall be known as the Costs of Incarceration Chapter of the Mendocino County Code.

(Ord. No. 3506, adopted 1984.)

This Chapter is enacted pursuant to Penal Code Sections 1203.1c and 1209.

(Ord. No. 3506, adopted 1984.)

The Sheriff-Coroner is hereby directed to receive payments from prisoners serving sentences within the terms of Penal Code Sections 1203.1c and 1209, and said officer is directed to deposit all sums into the county treasury.

(Ord. No. 3506, adopted 1984.)

The Board of Supervisors shall make an annual determination of the average per-day costs of incarceration in the jail and detention facility. Said costs are determined to be $39.00 for the first day of incarceration and $21.00 for each day thereafter.

(Ord. No. 3506, adopted 1984.)

A payment schedule based upon income for reimbursement of the costs imposed by Section 5.92.030 shall be developed by the Sheriff-Coroner and approved by the presiding judges of the justice and superior courts.

(Ord. No. 3506, adopted 1984.)

The sentences, paragraphs, clauses and phrases of this ordinance are severable, and if any phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or section of this ordinance shall be declared unconstitutional or invalid by the valid judgement or decree of any court of competent jurisdiction, such unconstitutionality or invalidity shall not affect any of the remaining phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs and sections of this ordinance.

(Ord. No. 3506, adopted 1984.)