Section 4553 - Expenses of investigating grand juries and trials resulting therefrom(a) County.--The expenses of a county investigating grand jury shall be borne by the county in which it is impaneled.(b) MulticountyThe expenses of any multicounty investigating grand jury shall be borne by the Commonwealth.(1) Multicounty investigating grand jurors shall be compensated at the rate of $40 for each day that they report for service. Jurors shall be paid a travel allowance at the rate that an employee of the Office of Attorney General on official business would be reimbursed. Jurors shall receive payment of per diem meal expenses in the amounts of $6 for breakfast, $10 for lunch and $25 for dinner for any day or portion thereof that the person is serving as a juror. Only those persons who are required, because of the distance from their residence, to obtain overnight accommodations at the site of the multicounty investigating grand jury shall receive payment of a per diem for breakfast and dinner.(2) The costs and expenses resulting from any trial of a person against whom a presentment has been issued by a multicounty investigating grand jury shall be borne by the Commonwealth. Costs and expenses under this subsection include, but are not limited to, all reasonable costs incurred by the county for the services of the courts, the trial jury, the sheriff, the clerk of courts, the county prison, the district attorney and any public defender appointed by the court, and related costs and expenses incurred by the county in the course of the trial.(3) Counties shall be reimbursed from the General Fund of the Commonwealth upon application to the State Treasurer through the Office of Attorney General pursuant to procedures prescribed by that office.1980, Oct. 5, P.L. 693, No. 142, § 216(a)(2), effective in 60 days. Amended 1984, Dec. 19, P.L. 1089, No. 218, § 3, imd. effective; 1984, Dec. 19, P.L. 1189, No. 225, § 1, imd. effective; 2002, Oct. 17, P.L. 880, No. 127, § 1, imd. effective.