                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

(SEE EDITOR&#8217;S NOTE) COMPACT; TRANSPORT OF PRISONERS TO AND FROM MEDICAL
FACILITIES ACROSS STATE BOUNDARIES; GOVERNOR TO EXECUTE (§ 53.1-133.10)

The Governor is authorized and requested to execute, on behalf of the
Commonwealth, with any other state or states legally joining therein a compact
that shall be in form substantially as follows:		The compacting states solemnly
agree that:		ARTICLE I.		The party states, desiring by common action to
efficiently utilize and provide emergency medical, dental, and psychiatric care
for prisoners of local correctional facilities, declare that it is the policy of
each of the party states to cooperate with one another to serve the best
interests of the prisoners and of the state and local governments in the
convenient and economical provision of these services. The purpose of this
compact is to provide for the mutual recognition of the control and authority
over prisoners during transport to and from medical, dental, and psychiatric
facilities across state boundaries.		ARTICLE II.		As used in this compact,
unless the context clearly requires otherwise:

1. &#8220;State&#8221; means a state of the United States, the United States of
America, a territory or possession of the United States, the District of
Columbia, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

2. &#8220;Sending state&#8221; means a state party to this compact in which a
prisoner in need of medical, dental, or psychiatric services is incarcerated.

3. &#8220;Receiving state&#8221; means a state party to this compact in which is
located a medical, dental, or psychiatric facility.

4. &#8220;Prisoner&#8221; means a male or female offender who is committed under
sentence to or confined in a local correctional facility.

5. &#8220;Local correctional facility&#8221; means any penal or correctional
facility or any jail, regional jail, jail farm, or other place used for the
detention or incarceration of adult offenders that is owned, maintained, or
operated by any political subdivision or combination of subdivisions of a state
or a local government of a state.
			ARTICLE III.			Each party state agrees to extend all necessary authority to
law-enforcement or corrections officers from a sending state while such officers
have in their custody a prisoner for the purpose of escorting the prisoner to
and from a medical, dental, or psychiatric facility located in the receiving
state.			ARTICLE IV.			This compact shall enter into force and become effective
and binding upon the states so acting when it has been enacted into law by any
two states. Thereafter, this compact shall enter into force and become effective
and binding as to any other of said states upon similar action by such
state.			ARTICLE V.			This compact shall continue in force and remain binding
upon a party state until the party state has enacted a statute repealing the
same and providing for the sending of formal written notice of withdrawal from
the compact to the appropriate official of all other party states. No actual
withdrawal shall take effect until one year after the notice provided in said
statute has been sent. Such withdrawal shall not relieve the withdrawing state
from its obligations assumed hereunder prior to the effective date of
withdrawal. Before the effective date of withdrawal, a withdrawing state shall
remove to its territory, at its own expense, such inmates as it may have
confined pursuant to the provisions of this compact.			ARTICLE VI.			The
provisions of this compact shall be liberally construed and shall be severable.
If any phrase, clause, sentence, or provision of this compact is declared to be
contrary to the constitution of any participating state or of the United States
or the applicability thereof to any government, agency, person, or circumstance
is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of this compact and the
applicability thereof to any government, agency, person, or circumstance shall
not be affected thereby. If this compact is held contrary to the constitution of
any state participating therein, the compact shall remain in full force and
effect as to the remaining states and in full force and effect as to the state
affected as to all severable matters.

HISTORY: 2013, c. 138.