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CRIMES

To amend and reenact section 12-5108 of the North Dakota Revised Code of 1943 providing for the cost of transportation and the care of persons committed to state farm and the payment of such expense and the handling of federal prisoners.

Be It Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of North Dakota:

1. .) That section 12-5108 of the North Dakota Revised Code of 1943 be amended and reenacted to read as follows:

12-5108. .) The cost of transporting persons committed to the state farm shall be paid as the costs of transporting persons committed to the penitentiary are paid. The cost of care and keep of persons who are committed to the state farm for the commission of a crime for which they might have been sentenced to the penitentiary shall be paid by the state out of the funds appropriated for such purpose for persons committed to the penitentiary, or out of the funds appropriated for that purpose. The cost of care and keep of any person committed to said farm for the commission of a crime for which he might have been sentenced to a county jail, but not to the penitentiary, shall be paid by the county from which such person is committed at the rate of one dollar per day per person, except, however, when the offense is committed in any county within an area, where there is in process of construction any federal project of such magnitude as to attract to such area a large number of people from outside the locality, then any person convicted of an offense for which he might have been sentenced to a county jail, and who is not, in the opinion of the court, permanently residing in said area, the cost of care and keep shall be paid by the state out of funds appropriated for that purpose. Provided further that whenever the state farm is filled to capacity and there are