§ 601-b. Coram nobis prisoners; reimbursement for costs. Whenever a
prisoner is transferred from a state penal institution to a county jail
or penitentiary, or a city prison operated by a city having a population
of one million or more inhabitants, to await judicial review of his
trial, the state shall pay to the city or county operating such facility
the actual per day per capita cost, certified to the commissioner by the
appropriate local official, for the care of such prisoner but, in any
case, the reimbursement rate shall not exceed twenty dollars per day per
capita.