Sec. 5.

(1) The state shall reimburse each county in which a state correctional facility is located for the reasonable and actual costs of the following expenses incurred by that county for implementing jurisdictional duties in the probate court imposed upon that county by chapter 10 of the mental health code, Act No. 258 of the Public Acts of 1974, being sections 330.2001 to 330.2050 of the Michigan Compiled Laws, with respect to proceedings for the transfer of an allegedly mentally ill prisoner who is confined in a state correctional facility in that county, to the center for forensic psychiatry program for treatment, or with respect to proceedings for the treatment of an allegedly mentally ill prisoner within a state correctional facility:

(a) The expense of legal counsel appointed to represent an indigent prisoner in the proceeding.

(b) Compensation paid to each juror who is either summoned for voir dire or impaneled on a jury, if a jury trial is demanded in the proceeding.

(c) Compensation paid to each witness subpoenaed to the proceeding by the prisoner.

(d) The expense of the preparation of a transcript of the proceeding.

(2) Each county shall submit quarterly its itemized costs as described in subsection (1) to the chief probate judge of the county. After determination by the chief probate judge of the reasonableness of the amount to be paid, payment shall be made in accordance with the accounting laws of the state. The determination of reasonableness by the chief probate judge shall be conclusive.

History: Add. 1984, Act 409, Eff. Mar. 29, 1985