Section 431. Authorization


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  • 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.