2021 Colorado Code
Title 30 - Government - County
Article 10 - County Officers
Part 5 - Sheriff
§ 30-10-514. Sheriff to Transport Prisoners

It is the duty of any sheriff transporting prisoners to a correctional facility, as defined in section 17-1-102 , C.R.S., or other place of confinement to convey to such facility or other place of confinement at one time all prisoners who may have been convicted and sentenced and who are ready for such transportation. If any sheriff fails or neglects to carry out the provisions of this section, the boards of county commissioners may disallow any such sheriff's bill for such extra trips as in their discretion are unnecessary. This section shall not apply to the transportation of the insane.

History. Source: L. 1897: P. 256, § 1. R.S. 08: § 1282. C.L. § 8757. CSA: C. 45, § 104. CRS 53: § 35-5-14 . C.R.S. 1963: § 35-5-14 . L. 79: Entire section amended, p. 704, § 83, effective July 1.

For necessary expenses of and mileage allowance to sheriffs for transporting prisoners, see § 30-1-104 (1)(w) .

The sheriff conveying several prisoners to the penitentiary or other place of detention is entitled to but one mileage for the service of the mittimus, no matter what may be the number of his prisoners, so he is entitled to but one mittimus mileage for all prisoners, who, being convicted and sentenced, are ready to be transported at the same time, however transported, whether by separate trips, or otherwise, but he is entitled to mileage for each prisoner so transported, whether in one or several trips. Bd. of Comm'rs v. Campbell, 52 Colo. 440 , 123 P. 317 (1912).

Applied in Tihonovich v. Williams, 196 Colo. 144 , 582 P.2d 1051 (1978).