601-B - Coram nobis prisoners; reimbursement for costs.

§  601-b.  Coram nobis prisoners; reimbursement for costs.  Whenever a  prisoner is transferred from a state penal institution to a county  jail  or penitentiary, or a city prison operated by a city having a population  of  one  million  or  more  inhabitants, to await judicial review of his  trial, the state shall pay to the city or county operating such facility  the actual per day per capita cost, certified to the commissioner by the  appropriate local official, for the care of such prisoner  but,  in  any  case, the reimbursement rate shall not exceed twenty dollars per day per  capita.