431 - Authorization.

§  431.  Authorization.  It  shall  be  lawful  in  the  interests  of  efficiency and economy for any county and  any  one  or  more  municipal  corporations within such county or for any two or more such corporations  within the county to jointly acquire real property by purchase, lease or  condemnation  for  the  purposes hereinafter specified and to establish,  construct, equip, operate, maintain, control and supervise for the joint  use and benefit of such corporations one or more jails at such place  or  places  as may be equally accessible for each of such corporations to be  specified in the agreement providing therefor or to utilize one or  more  existing  jails,  lock-ups,  or  workhouses  therefor.  The ordinance or  resolution providing for such joint  action  shall  be  adopted  by  the  governing  boards  of  each  of  the several corporations affected and a  committee, composed of at least one member of each of such boards, shall  be created to acquire necessary  real  property,  in  the  name  of  the  municipal  corporations  affected  and,  as  the  joint  agent  of  such  corporations such committee  shall  have  charge  of  the  construction,  equipment,  maintenance,  and  operation of such jail or jails and shall  supervise and control the same. The ordinance or resolution may  specify  matters  as to which the action of the committee shall require the joint  approval of such boards and shall prescribe the proportions of the  cost  of  the  construction and operation of such jail or jails to be borne by  the several corporations affected. The moneys to pay  the  share  to  be  borne by each corporation affected shall be provided by appropriation in  such  amounts  and  at  such  time  as  may  be agreed upon.   Any jail,  penitentiary, workhouse, or lock-up, abandoned or  rendered  useless  by  reason of action taken pursuant to this section may be sold or otherwise  disposed  of  or  utilized  by the corporation controlling the same. The  ordinance or resolution  may  also  provide  for  the  transfer  to  and  utilization in the proposed joint jail or jails of the books, papers and  records  and  the  vans, wagons, automobiles, equipment and personnel of  any existing jail, penitentiary, workhouse, or lock-up  whose  continued  operation  will  be  rendered  unnecessary  by  reason  of  action taken  pursuant to this section. All of the provisions of  the  correction  law  and  of  every  other  general,  special  or  local  law shall so far as  practicable, continue to apply with full force and effect to every  jail  established  and  maintained  pursuant to this section as if the several  constituent institutions consolidated by  such  jail  had  continued  in  operation as single units.