7-32-2201. Establishing detention center -- detention center contract -- regional detention center. For the confinement of lawfully committed persons, the governing body of a county may participate in or undertake one or more of the following:
     (1) A detention center may be built or provided and kept in good repair at the expense of the county in each county, except that whenever in the discretion of the governing body of two or more local governments it is necessary or desirable to build, provide, or utilize a multijurisdictional detention center, they may do so in any of the jurisdictions concerned. The multijurisdictional detention center shall be built or provided and kept in good repair at the expense of the local governments concerned on a basis as the governing bodies agree.
     (2) A county or two or more local governments acting together may provide for the detention center allowed by subsection (1) by:
     (a) establishing in the county government the position of detention center administrator and hiring a person, who is answerable to the governing body of the county, to fill the position or appointing the sheriff as detention center administrator; or
     (b) entering into an agreement with a private party under which the private party will provide, maintain, or operate the detention center.
     (3) The detention centers in this state are kept by the detention center administrators of the local governments in which they are situated. In the case of a multijurisdictional detention center as provided in subsection (1), the detention center shall be kept by the local governments utilizing the detention center on a basis as the governing bodies agree.
     (4) The board of county commissioners has jurisdiction and power, under such limitations and restrictions as are prescribed by law, to cause a detention center to be erected, furnished, maintained, and operated. The costs must be paid for out of the county treasury.

     History: (1)En. 16-2802.1 by Sec. 1, Ch. 193, L. 1973; Sec. 16-2802.1, R.C.M. 1947; (2)En. Sec. 3022, Pen. C. 1895; re-en. Sec. 9759, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 12468, R.C.M. 1921; Cal. Pen. C. Sec. 1597; re-en. Sec. 12468, R.C.M. 1935; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 193, L. 1973; Sec. 16-2803, R.C.M 1947; (3)En. Subd. 9, Sec. 1, Ch. 100, L. 1931; re-en. Sec. 4465.8, R.C.M. 1935; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 56, L. 1947; amd. Secs. 1, 2, Ch. 238, L. 1947; amd. Secs. 1, 2, Ch. 5, L. 1949; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 76, L. 1957; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 150, L. 1959; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 130, L. 1973; Sec. 16-1008A, R.C.M. 1947; R.C.M. 1947, 16-1008A(part), 16-2802.1, 16-2803(part); amd. Sec. 10, Ch. 447, L. 1985; amd. Sec. 15, Ch. 461, L. 1989.