2009 West Virginia Code
CHAPTER 28. STATE CORRECTIONAL AND PENAL INSTITUTIONS
ARTICLE 3. INDUSTRIAL HOME FOR YOUTH.
§28-3-17 Payment by counties of cost of detention of girls at industrial home -- Preparation of inmate lists for billing purposes; application of county funds in state treasury.

§28-3-17. Payment by counties of cost of detention of girls at industrial home -- Preparation of inmate lists for billing purposes; application of county funds in state treasury.
The superintendent of the industrial home shall, before the tenth day of January of each year, prepare and certify to the auditor and the state commissioner of corrections each a list by counties of all such girls as are mentioned in the preceding section, who were kept in the home during the preceding year or any part of it, showing as to each girl what part of the year she was so kept in the home. On receiving such list the auditor shall charge to each county fifty dollars on account of each girl from such county who was kept in such home during the preceding year, and a proportionate amount on account of each girl kept in the home for any part of such year less than the whole. Any money in the treasury of the state to the credit of any such county, from whatever source arising, and not appropriated to pay any other debt of the county to the state, shall be applied, so far as necessary, to the payment of the sums so charged. If any sum in the treasury due the county shall not be sufficient to pay the whole amount so charged against it, such sum shall be applied as a credit on the amount charged, and the balance shall remain a charge against the county.