441.510 Transporting to and from detention facility.
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If an inmate is confined in a detention facility, he shall be transported as necessary
in accordance with the following provisions:
(a) If he is lodged in an urban-county facility in the county where the trial is to be
held, the jailer shall carry out this duty; and
(b) In all other cases, the sheriff of the county where the prisoner is incarcerated
shall carry out this duty as provided in subsection (3) of this section.
The transportation of any inmate housed in a county detention center whose court
appearance is necessary in any other county shall be transported by the sheriff of the
county where the trial or court proceedings are to be held.
If an accused is sentenced to confinement, the sheriff shall deliver him to the proper
detention facility, with the exception that in the case of a sentence to an urbancounty detention facility, the jailer shall carry out this duty.
In each county where there is no jail, the fiscal court or the legislative body of a
charter county government, as appropriate, shall adopt a transportation plan which
establishes the party responsible for transporting prisoners as necessary:
(a) The fiscal court or the legislative body of a charter county government, as
appropriate, may require the jailer to serve as transportation officer to be
responsible for transporting prisoners as necessary; or
(b) The fiscal court or the legislative body of a charter county government, as
appropriate, may require the sheriff to serve as transportation officer to be
responsible for transporting prisoners as necessary; or
(c) The fiscal court or the legislative body of a charter county government, as
appropriate, may adopt any reasonable transportation plan so long as the party
responsible for transporting prisoners is specified.
Upon the recommendation of the jailer, the fiscal court shall employ a female
transportation officer for purposes of assisting the jailer during the transportation of
female prisoners, when deemed necessary by the jailer.
In any county where there is no jail and the jailer does not transport prisoners, the
jailer shall serve as a bailiff to the Circuit and District Courts of the county as
provided for in KRS 71.050.
Nothing in this section shall prohibit the jailer from transporting the prisoners as he
or she deems necessary.
Effective: June 21, 2001
History: Amended 2001 Ky. Acts ch. 97, sec. 1, effective June 21, 2001. -- Amended
2000 Ky. Acts ch. 384, sec. 2, effective July 14, 2000. -- Amended 1996 Ky. Acts
ch. 84, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1996. -- Amended 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 89, sec. 2,
effective July 14, 1992. -- Amended 1984 Ky. Acts ch. 141, sec. 10, effective July
13, 1984. -- Amended 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 385, sec. 47, effective July 1, 1982. -Created 1976 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 22, sec. 55, effective January 2, 1978.
Formerly codified as KRS 441.500.
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