Minnesota Session Laws - 1992, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1992 

                        CHAPTER 417-S.F.No. 2124 
           An act relating to crimes; increasing the distance an 
          accused or convicted person may be transferred without 
          an escort of the same sex; amending Minnesota Statutes 
          1990, section 631.412. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1990, section 631.412, is 
amended to read: 
    631.412 [SAME SEX ESCORT FOR INMATES BEING TRANSFERRED.] 
    When a sheriff or other correctional officer has custody of 
a person charged with or convicted of a crime and transfers that 
person more than 25 100 miles, that sheriff or other 
correctional officer shall provide the transferee with a 
custodial escort of the same sex as the transferee.  A sheriff 
may employ, when the occasion exists, a suitable person to carry 
out this section.  The expenses of the person's employment must 
be paid out of county funds not otherwise appropriated. 
    Presented to the governor April 3, 1992 
    Signed by the governor April 7, 1992, 2:59 p.m.