153A-219. District confinement facilities.
(a) Two or more units of local government may enter into and carry out an agreement to establish, finance, and operate a district confinement facility. The units may construct such a facility or may designate an existing facility as a district confinement facility. In addition, two or more units of local government may enter into and carry out agreements under which one unit may use the local confinement facility owned and operated by another. In exercising the powers granted by this section, the units shall proceed according to the procedures and provisions of Chapter 160A, Article 20, Part 1.
(b) If a district confinement facility is established, the units involved shall provide for a jail administrator for the facility. The administrator need not be the sheriff or any other official of a participating unit. The administrator and the other custodial personnel of a district confinement facility have the authority of law-enforcement officers for the purposes of receiving, maintaining custody of, and transporting prisoners.
(c) If a district confinement facility is established, or if one unit contracts to use the local confinement facility of another, the law-enforcement officers of the contracting units and the custodial personnel of the facility may transport prisoners to and from the facility.
(d) The Department shall provide technical and other assistance to units wishing to exercise any of the powers granted by this section. (1933, c. 201; 1967, c. 581, s. 2; 1969, c. 743; 1971, c. 341, s. 1; 1973, c. 822, s. 1.)
Structure North Carolina General Statutes
North Carolina General Statutes
Article 10 - Law Enforcement and Confinement Facilities.
§ 153A-211 - Training and development programs for law enforcement.
§ 153A-212 - Cooperation in law-enforcement matters.
§ 153A-212.1 - Resources to protect the public.
§ 153A-212.2 - Neighborhood crime watch programs.
§ 153A-212.5 - Expired pursuant to Session Laws 2018-113, s15.1(c), effective October 1, 2018.
§ 153A-216 - Legislative policy.
§ 153A-218 - County confinement facilities[Effective until January 1, 2023]
§ 153A-219 - District confinement facilities.
§ 153A-220 - Jail and detention services.
§ 153A-221 - Minimum standards.
§ 153A-221.1 - Standards and inspections[Effective until January 1, 2023]
§ 153A-222 - Inspections of local confinement facilities.
§ 153A-223 - Enforcement of minimum standards.
§ 153A-224 - Supervision of local confinement facilities.
§ 153A-225 - Medical care of prisoners.
§ 153A-225.1 - Duty of custodial personnel when prisoners are unconscious or semiconscious.
§ 153A-225.2 - Payment of medical care of prisoners.
§ 153A-226 - Sanitation and food.
§ 153A-228 - Separation of sexes.
§ 153A-229 - Jailers' report of jailed defendants.
§ 153A-229.3 - Inspection by facility employees.
§ 153A-229.4 - Access to menstrual products.
§ 153A-230 - Legislative policy.
§ 153A-230.1 - Definitions[Effective until January 1, 2023]
§ 153A-230.2 - Creation of Satellite Jail/Work Release Unit Fund[Effective until January 1, 2023]