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N.Y. Correction Law § 79: Leasing of state institutions to cities or counties for the confinement of prisoners

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  1. Correction Law
  2. Article 4. Establishment of Correctional Facilities, Commitments to Department and Custody of Incarcerated Individuals

§ 79. Leasing of state institutions to cities or counties for the

confinement of prisoners. 1. The commissioner is hereby authorized and

empowered to lease to any city or county, upon such terms and conditions

as he may deem appropriate, all or any part of any state correctional

institution or facility under his jurisdiction, to be used as an adjunct

to a jail, penitentiary or correctional institution of such city or

county, for the confinement of persons sentenced to such jail,

penitentiary, or correctional institution. Such lease may provide for

the commissioner to have the superintendence, management and control of

the state correctional institution or facility, or part thereof, which

is the subject of such lease. Such lease shall provide for such city or

county to pay to the state the actual per capita daily cost, as

certified to the appropriate local official by the commissioner, for the

care of such persons for each day of confinement, but, in any case, the

reimbursement rate shall not exceed five dollars per day per capita.

* 2. The commissioner is hereby authorized and empowered to lease to a

city having a population of one million or more, on such terms and

conditions as he may deem appropriate, all or any part of the state

correctional facility under the department's jurisdiction at Ossining in

Westchester county, to be used as an adjunct to any correctional

institution of such city used for the detention of persons charged with

commission of a crime and committed to detention pending disposition of

such charge, for the detention of such persons. Such lease may provide

for the commissioner to have the superintendence, management and control

of the state correctional facility or part thereof which is the subject

of such lease. This subdivision shall not limit the authority of the

commissioner of general services provided in chapter seven hundred

twenty-five of the laws of nineteen hundred seventy, to convey certain

lands described in such chapter to the county of Westchester.

* NB Expired August 1, 1977

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