California Code of Regulations › Title 2 - Administration › Division 2 - Financial Operations › Chapter 1 - California Victim Compensation Board (Calvcb) Regulations › Article 10 - Agents Transporting Prisoners, Patients, and Wards › Section 776 - Claims of Sheriffs

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a)
				  General Provisions. Sheriffs are entitled to reimbursement for expenses
				  incurred in the transportation of prisoners, patients, or wards to state
				  institutions except in the case of transportation of criminal insane to state
				  hospitals or placing a defendant in a diagnostic facility, which is chargeable
				  to the county.
(b) Allowable
				  Expenses. The general traveling expense rules of the State Board of Control
				  will be followed in presenting claims with the following limitations:
(1) Subsistence allowances shall be in
				  accordance with Rule 706(a)(1), Short-Term Allowance, and Rule 706(c),
				  Computation of Allowances, except that no per diem shall be paid for any length
				  of travel which totals less than 8 hours. Meal subsistence when the travel time
				  is more than 4 but less than 8 hours will be paid according to the rate
				  established in Rule 706(c), Business Related Meals. Subsistence may be claimed
				  for each county employee who is actually transporting prisoners, patients, or
				  wards and any non-county employee who may act as a matron.
(2) Any salary allowance reimbursement to a
				  non-county employee acting as a matron shall be computed at the minimum entry
				  level hourly rate for a comparable county employee.
(3) Distance expenses will be paid for total
				  round trip distance at the rate of 18.5 cents per 1.6 kilometer (mile). The
				  same rate shall be paid regardless of type of vehicle.
(4) A subsistence allowance of $1.75 per
				  person per meal may be claimed for each prisoner, patient, or ward being
				  transported only when the time elapsed is in excess of 4 hours one
				  way.
(5) Bus or train. When
				  transportation is by bus or train, reimbursement shall be based on either (A)
				  or (B) below providing the sheriff indicates on the claim the mode of
				  transportation; i.e., regularly scheduled bus, regularly scheduled train,
				  chartered bus, or county-owned bus. The allowances provided in subsections (1)
				  through (4) above may also be claimed if otherwise allowable.
(A) When transportation is by regularly
				  scheduled bus or train, the actual and necessary cost of such transportation,
				  not to exceed one first class, round-trip fare for each deputy (and matron, if
				  necessary) and one first class, one-way fare for each patient or prisoner
				  transported, may be claimed. The actual and necessary cost of such
				  transportation may include taxi fares incurred at locations other than the
				  county seat of the committing county if supported by receipt. Pullman charges
				  are not allowed.
(B) When
				  transportation is by chartered or county-owned bus, reimbursement may be
				  claimed according to the mileage allowance referenced in(3)
				  above.
(6) Aircraft. When
				  transportation is by scheduled airline, reimbursement shall be based on Rule
				  713(a), Scheduled Airline. When transportation is by chartered aircraft,
				  reimbursement will be for the actual cost not to exceed the equivalent cost of
				  scheduled airlines' fares.
(7)
				  Ambulance. When transportation is by ambulance, reimbursement shall be based on
				  the actual cost of ambulance service. The allowances provided in subsections
				  (b)(1) through (b)(4) above may also be claimed if otherwise
				  allowable.