17-50-319. County charges enumerated.
(1) County charges are:
(a) those incurred against the county by any law;
(b) the necessary expenses of the county attorney or district attorney incurred in criminal
cases arising in the county, and all other expenses necessarily incurred by the county or district
attorney in the prosecution of criminal cases, except jury and witness fees;
(c) the expenses necessarily incurred in the support of persons charged with or convicted
of a criminal offense and committed to the county jail;
(d) for a county not within the state district court administrative system, the sum required
by law to be paid jurors in civil cases;
(e) all charges and accounts for services rendered by any justice court judge for services
in the trial and examination of persons charged with a criminal offense not otherwise provided
for by law;
(f) the contingent expenses necessarily incurred for the use and benefit of the county;
(g) every other sum directed by law to be raised for any county purposes under the
direction of the county legislative body or declared a county charge;
(h) the fees of constables for services rendered in criminal cases;
(i) the necessary expenses of the sheriff and deputies incurred in civil and criminal cases
arising in the county, and all other expenses necessarily incurred by the sheriff and deputies
performing the duties imposed upon them by law;
(j) the sums required by law to be paid by the county to jurors and witnesses serving at
inquests and in criminal cases in justice courts; and
(k) subject to Subsection (2), expenses incurred by a health care facility or provider in
providing medical services at the request of a county sheriff for existing conditions of:
(i) persons booked into a county jail on a charge of a criminal offense; or
(ii) persons convicted of a criminal offense and committed to a county jail.
(2) (a) Expenses described in Subsection (1)(k) are a county charge only to the extent
that they exceed any private insurance in effect that covers those expenses.
(b) If there is no contract between a county jail and a health care facility or provider that
establishes a fee schedule for medical services rendered, expenses under Subsection (1)(k) shall
be commensurate with:
(i) for a health care facility, the current noncapitated state Medicaid rates; and
(ii) for a health care provider, 65% of the amount that would be paid to the health care
provider:
(A) under the Public Employees' Benefit and Insurance Program, created in Section
49-20-103; and
(B) if the person receiving the medical service were a covered employee under the Public
Employees' Benefit and Insurance Program.
(c) Subsection (1)(k) does not apply to expenses of a person held at the jail at the request
of an agency of the United States.
(d) A county that receives information from the Public Employees' Benefit and Insurance
Program to enable the county to calculate the amount to be paid to a health care provider under
Subsection (2)(b)(ii) shall keep that information confidential.
Amended by Chapter 155, 2008 General Session
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