§ 53-515. Utilization of annual revenues generated from fee for committing and discharging convicted inmates to and from the county jail.

The revenues generated annually from the collection of the fee before January 1, 2019, shall be distributed as follows:

(a)

The city shall refund the fee to an inmate who requests the refund in accordance with section 53-514(4), D.R.M.C.

(b)

The city shall expend an amount equal to twenty (20) percent of the revenues generated annually from the fee to administer a community-based treatment program for the treatment of offenders with mental illness or addiction committed or discharged by the city if the city has established such a community-based treatment program.

(c)

For purpose of subsection (a) "community-based treatment program" means a community-based program that provides management and treatment services to persons with mental illness or addiction in the criminal or juvenile justice system, designed, at a minimum, to reduce recidivism and hospitalization of these persons.

(d)

The city shall expend an amount equal to twenty (20) percent of the revenues generated annually from the fee for training, at the discretion of the manager of safety, of members of the Denver police department and the Denver sheriff department, which training may include a crisis intervention training component to meet the needs of offenders with mental illness; and

(e)

The city shall expend the balance of the revenues generated annually from the said fee for law-enforcement-related expenditures to defray processing costs.

(Ord. No. 342-05, § 4, 5-16-05; Ord. No. 1331-18, § 2, 12-3-18)