N.Y. Correction Law § 602: Expenses of sheriff for transporting prisoners

§ 602. Expenses of sheriff for transporting prisoners. For conveying

a prisoner or prisoners to a state prison from the county prison, the

sheriff or person having charge of the same shall be reimbursed for the

amount of expenses actually and necessarily incurred by him for railroad

fare or cost of other transportation and for cost of maintenance of

himself and each prisoner in going to the prison, and for his railroad

fare or other cost of transportation in returning home, and cost of his

maintenance while so returning. The county shall be reimbursed for a

portion of the salary of such sheriff or person for the period, not to

exceed thirty-six hours, from the commencement of transportation from

the county prison to the return of such sheriff or person to the county

prison, the amount of such reimbursement to be computed by adding to the

amount of such salary the total amount of the aforesaid expenses

incurred for transportation and maintenance and reducing the resulting

aggregate amount, first, by fifty per centum of such aggregate amount

and, second, by the total amount of the aforesaid expenses incurred for

transportation and maintenance.