February 13, 2003, Introduced by Reps. Caswell, Brandenburg, Nitz and Shaffer and referred to the Committee on Criminal Justice.
A bill to amend 1846 RS 171, entitled
"Of county jails and the regulation thereof,"
by amending section 4 (MCL 801.4), as amended by 1984 PA 119.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
1 Sec. 4. (1) Except as provided in subsection (2) and
2 sections 5 and 5a, all charges and expenses of safekeeping and
3 maintaining prisoners and
persons charged with an offense ,
4 shall be paid from the
county treasury, if the accounts therefor
5 being for those charges and settlements are first
settled and
6 allowed by the county board of commissioners.
7 (2) If a prisoner or person charged with an offense receives
8 medical care as an emergency patient, the county is liable for
9 the payment of not more than $250.00 for that emergency medical
10 care. The county is not liable for payment of any amount for any
11 other medical care or treatment administered to a prisoner or
1 person charged with an offense. As used in this subsection,
2 "emergency patient" means an individual with a physical or mental
3 condition that manifests itself by acute symptoms of sufficient
4 severity, including, but not limited to, pain such that a prudent
5 layperson, possessing average knowledge of health and medicine,
6 could reasonably expect to result in 1 or all of the following:
7 (a) Placing the health of the individual or, in the case of a
8 pregnant woman, the health of the patient or the unborn child, or
9 both, in serious jeopardy.
10 (b) Serious impairment of bodily function.
11 (c) Serious dysfunction of a body organ or part.