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     631.412 Same sex escort for inmates being transferred. 

    When a sheriff or other correctional officer has custody of 
 a person charged with or convicted of a crime and transfers that 
 person more than 100 miles, that sheriff or other correctional 
 officer shall provide the transferee with a custodial escort of 
 the same sex as the transferee.  A sheriff may employ, when the 
 occasion exists, a suitable person to carry out this section.  
 The expenses of the person's employment must be paid out of 
 county funds not otherwise appropriated. 

    HIST: (9950-4) 1927 c 213 s 1; 1985 c 265 art 11 s 1; 1987 c 
 49 s 16; 1992 c 417 s 1 

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