A county to which a prisoner is sent due to the lack of a safe jail in the sending county as determined by the Commission on Jail Standards may recover by suit from the sending county the reasonable cost of keeping the prisoner.
Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 351.044
PRISONER IN ANOTHER COUNTY'S JAIL
Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 149, Sec. 1, eff
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