Application Procedures

(1) Participation by any county in the per diem subsidy programs is voluntary. (2) Counties with jails certified by the Tennessee Corrections Institute under current standards need not make formal application to participate in that program. (3) On an annual basis non-certified counties must submit an Application for Participation. To qualify for subsidies within a contract year, application must be made within the first 6 months of that year. (4) The Department of Correction will forward proposed contracts and blank applications to all non- certified counties in anticipation of each fiscal year. (5) Each non-certified county seeking participation will submit with the proposed contract a completed application, including at minimum the following information: COUNTY CORRECTIONS INCENTIVE PROGRAM CHAPTER 0420-2-1 (a) An itemization of the improvements to be made in the facility. Such improvements may be to the physical plant, to correctional staffing, or to correctional programming and should include those recommended in the most recent report of the jail inspection division. Improvements approved in one contract period cannot be funded again in subsequent years. (b) Signatures both of the Sheriff or of the Workhouse Superintendent, as applicable, and of the County Executive. Authority. T.C.A. §§41-8-104, 41-8-105 and 41-8-108.