601-C - Felony prisoners; reimbursement for costs.

§  601-c.  Felony  prisoners; reimbursement for costs. Notwithstanding  any other provision of  law,  in  any  case  where  a  person  has  been  convicted  of a felony and a sentence has been pronounced which requires  that he or she be committed to the custody of the commissioner, if  such  person  has not been accepted for custody by the commissioner within ten  business days of receipt of a written  notification  by  the  department  from  the  appropriate  local  official  that  he  or she is prepared to  transport such person to the  facility  designated  by  the  department,  provided  that there has been compliance with subdivision (a) of section  six hundred one of this article, and provided further that  such  person  is not in need of immediate medical care requiring the availability of a  hospital  or  infirmary bed, then the expense of maintaining such person  shall be paid by the state at the rate of one hundred  dollars  per  day  per  capita,  or  the actual per day per capita cost as certified by the  appropriate local official, whichever is less, beginning with the  first  day of receipt of written notification by the department.