Section 47-5-909 - [Repealed effective 7/1/2027] Incarceration in county jails as temporary measure only; Department of Corrections to pay county jails for housing state offenders and provide for medical costs(1) It is the policy of the Legislature that all inmates be removed from county jails as early as practicable. Sections 47-5-901 through 47-5-907 are temporary measures to help alleviate the immediate operating capacity limitations at correctional facilities and are not permanent measures to be included in the long-term operating capacity of the correctional system.(2) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, to expedite the removal of inmates from county jails as early as practicable, absent a contract negotiated between the Department of Corrections and the county jail, the Department of Corrections shall pay county jails for housing state offenders out of any available funds as follows: (a) Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00) per day per offender for days one (1) through thirty (30);(b) Thirty-two Dollars and Seventy-one Cents ($32.71) per day per offender for days thirty-one (31) or greater when: (i) An offender remains in the county jail after the Department of Corrections receives a certified copy of the sentencing order or five (5) days after the sentencing order is sent, in writing, by such county to the Department of Corrections, whichever is earlier; or(ii) An offender remains in the county jail after being revoked from parole or probation or is sentenced to a technical violation center.(3) The Department of Corrections is additionally responsible for all medical costs related to offenders housed at county jails under subsection (2) of this section.Laws, 1992, ch. 547, § 5; reenacted without change, Laws, 1997, ch. 408, § 5; reenacted without change, Laws, 1998, ch. 419, § 5; reenacted without change, Laws, 1999, ch. 538, § 5; reenacted without change, Laws, 2002, ch. 426, § 5; reenacted without change, Laws, 2003, ch. 421, § 5; reenacted without change, Laws, 2004, ch. 537, § 5; reenacted without change, Laws, 2005, ch. 395, § 5; reenacted without change, Laws, 2007, ch. 603, § 5; reenacted without change, Laws, 2008, ch. 323, § 5; reenacted without change, Laws, 2012, ch. 317, § 5, eff. 4/5/2012.Reenacted by Laws, 2024, ch. 458, HB 757,§ 5, eff. 7/1/2024.Amended by Laws, 2023, ch. 491, SB 2495,§ 2, eff. 7/1/2023.Reenacted by Laws, 2020, ch. 456, SB 2279,§ 5, eff. 7/1/2020.Reenacted by Laws, 2020, ch. 485, HB 685,§ 5, eff. 7/1/2020.Reenacted by Laws, 2016, ch. 408, HB 479, 5, eff. 7/1/2016.