SENATE BILL No. 895

December 4, 2001, Introduced by Senator MC COTTER and referred to the Committee on Government Operations.

A bill to amend 1893 PA 118, entitled

"An act to revise and consolidate the laws relative to state

prisons, to state houses of correction, and branches of state

prisons and reformatories, and the government and discipline

thereof and to repeal all acts inconsistent therewith,"

by amending sections 49 and 61 (MCL 800.49 and 800.61).

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

1 Sec. 49. The fees and actual expenses of sheriffs in con-

2 veying convicts to either A prison shall be made out in a bill

3 containing the items thereof FEES OR EXPENSES, and shall be

4 presented to the warden when the prisoner is delivered at the

5 prison. The warden shall certify on it that the prisoner has

6 been received, and the bill, including the sheriff's actual

7 expenses in returning to the county from whence WHERE the pris-

8 oner was sent, shall be audited by the auditor general STATE

9 TREASURER and paid from the state treasury. Before drawing his

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1 OR HER warrant the auditor general STATE TREASURER shall

2 correct any errors in said THE bill as to form, items, or

3 amount, and the sheriff shall be paid for such THE services,

4 his OR HER actual traveling expenses and the expenses of the con-

5 vict, and the sum of 3 dollars $3.00 for each and every day so

6 employed.

7 Sec. 61. Whenever any convict shall escape from either A

8 prison, it shall be the duty of the warden to SHALL take all

9 proper measures for the apprehension of such THE convict, and

10 for that purpose he OR SHE may offer a reward not exceeding 50

11 dollars $50.00 for the apprehension and delivery of such THAT

12 convict; but with the consent of his OR HER board such THE

13 reward may be increased to a sum not exceeding 500 dollars

14 $500.00. All suitable rewards and other sums of money, necessar-

15 ily paid for advertising and apprehending any convict who may

16 escape from prison, shall be audited by the auditor general

17 STATE TREASURER, and paid out of the state treasury. If any

18 prisoner shall be retaken, the time between the escape and his OR

19 HER recommittal shall not be computed as part of the term of

20 imprisonment, but he OR SHE shall remain in the prison a suffi-

21 cient length of time after the term of his OR HER sentence would

22 have expired, if he OR SHE had not escaped, to equal the period

23 of time he OR SHE may have been absent by reason of such THE

24 escape.

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