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§ 390.714. Grants to counties

Purdon's Pennsylvania Statutes and Consolidated StatutesTitle 61 P.S. Penal and Correctional Institutions

Purdon's Pennsylvania Statutes and Consolidated Statutes
Title 61 P.S. Penal and Correctional Institutions (Refs & Annos)
Chapter 4A. Prison Facilities Improvement Act
Chapter 7. Incurring Indebtedness for County Prisons
61 P.S. § 390.714
§ 390.714. Grants to counties
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The department shall, by regulation, establish procedures to implement the purposes of this chapter and to make grants to counties for the repair, expansion, construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation and improvement of local correctional facilities or multicounty regional prison facilities or the purchase of electronic monitoring equipment for alternative sentencing programs. These procedures shall include, at a minimum, the following:
(1) Applications shall be made to the department by the county or counties requesting the grant.
(2) Any grant approved by the department must be matched by funding in a like amount by the county from county funds, except that, if any Federal funding should become available for the construction of local correctional facilities, then both the department and county shares shall be reduced in like proportion.
(3) Grants shall be available only for the repair, expansion, construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation and improvement of local correctional facilities or multicounty regional prison facilities or the purchase of electronic monitoring equipment for alternative sentencing programs.
(4) Priority in the grant process shall be given to those counties which have expanded their prison facilities within five years of the date of the application and which are presently at or exceeding 115% of rated capacity. Under no circumstances shall any such grant exceed $1,000,000.

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1990, July 1, P.L. 315, No. 71, § 714, retroactive effective Dec. 21, 1989.
61 P.S. § 390.714, PA ST 61 P.S. § 390.714
Current through Act 11 of the 2024 Regular Session. Some statute sections may be more current, see credits for details.
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