§ 431. Authorization. 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.