602 - Expenses of sheriff for transporting prisoners.

§  602. Expenses of sheriff for transporting prisoners.  For conveying  a prisoner or prisoners to a state prison from the  county  prison,  the  sheriff  or person having charge of the same shall be reimbursed for the  amount of expenses actually and necessarily incurred by him for railroad  fare or cost of other transportation and  for  cost  of  maintenance  of  himself  and  each prisoner in going to the prison, and for his railroad  fare or other cost of transportation in returning home, and cost of  his  maintenance  while  so  returning.  The county shall be reimbursed for a  portion of the salary of such sheriff or person for the period,  not  to  exceed  thirty-six  hours,  from the commencement of transportation from  the county prison to the return of such sheriff or person to the  county  prison, the amount of such reimbursement to be computed by adding to the  amount  of  such  salary  the  total  amount  of  the aforesaid expenses  incurred for transportation and maintenance and reducing  the  resulting  aggregate  amount,  first,  by fifty per centum of such aggregate amount  and, second, by the total amount of the aforesaid expenses incurred  for  transportation and maintenance.