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                                  TITLE  20
                        STATE PRISON AND COUNTY JAILS
                                  CHAPTER 6
                                 COUNTY JAILS
    20-606.  DETERMINING CONFINEMENT COSTS -- DECREE. If a district judge or
magistrate orders the confinement or detention of any person under the
preceding section 20-604, Idaho Code, in a jail or confinement facility in
which there is no agreement as to the daily costs of confinement or detention,
then any governmental unit or agency involved may apply by petition to the
district court of the county in which such jail or confinement facility is
located to determine the direct and indirect costs of confinement per person
per day at the jail or facility. Such petition shall be filed with the
district court and a copy thereof served upon the board of county
commissioners or clerk thereof of the county or counties to be affected
thereby, which county or counties shall be denominated as the respondent. Such
respondent shall thereafter be allowed twenty (20) days to appear and plead to
said petition. The determination of such costs shall be made by a district
judge sitting without a jury in the same manner as other civil actions under
all rules of procedure for district courts of the state of Idaho. Upon the
final determination of the petition by trial or otherwise, the district court
shall enter a decree binding upon all parties thereto for all persons then
confined from said county or counties joined in the petition, stating the
dollar amount of the confinement or detention costs per person per day which
shall be paid by any such county confining or detaining persons in the jail or
facility pursuant to a court order made under section 20-604, Idaho Code. Such
decree shall have the force and effect of a final judgment, but the district
court shall have continuing jurisdiction to vacate or modify such decree upon
a material change of circumstances affecting such costs.