Idaho Code

Idaho Code § 20-612 (2026)

Reception and board of prisoners.

✓ current as of May 2026

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Reception and board of prisoners.

The sheriff must receive all persons committed to jail by competent authority except mentally ill persons not charged with a crime and juveniles. It shall be the duty of the board of county commissioners to furnish all persons committed to the county jail with necessary food, clothing, bedding, and medical care, and the board of county commissioners is authorized to pay therefor out of the county treasury under such rules and regulations as they may prescribe. The county’s obligation herein shall not apply when the person is no longer committed to the county jail if the person has been released pursuant to a dismissal, bail, or any other court order of release, unless the release is a temporary release from the jail solely for the purpose of receiving medical care for an injury that occurred while committed in the county jail. Nothing in this chapter precludes a released person from access to coverage under chapter 35, title 31, Idaho Code.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 6 cases, 1986–2018 · leading case: Saint Alphonsus Reg'l Med. Ctr. v. Raney, 413 P.3d 742 (Idaho 2018).

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Saint Alphonsus Reg'l Med. Ctr. v. Raney, 413 P.3d 742 (Idaho 2018). · cites it 16× “It shall be the duty of the board of county commissioners to furnish all persons committed to the county jail with necessary food, clothing and bedding, and medical care as provided in section 20-605, Idaho Code , and the board of county commissioners is authorized to pay…”

Cnty. of Bannock v. City of Pocatello, 715 P.2d 962 (Idaho 1986). · cites it 40× “" I.C. § 20-612. That statutory duty has not changed to this day.”

St. Alphonsus Reg'l Med. Ctr., Ltd. v. Killeen, 858 P.2d 736 (Idaho 1993). · cites it 8× “” Idaho Code § 20-612 does not limit the meaning of “expenses necessarily incurred in the support of persons charged with or convicted of crime and committed therefore to the county jail.”

Killeen v. Vernon, 822 P.2d 991 (Idaho 1991). · cites it 2× “2 I.C. § 20-612 provides that the “sheriff must receive all persons commit *98 ted to jail by competent authority” and that the sheriff must furnish necessaries to “all persons committed to the county jail.”

St. Al's RMC v. Ada Co Sheriff & Bd of Comm (Idaho 2018). · cites it 16× “I.C. § 20-612. Section 20-612 as amended now explicitly references Idaho Code section 20-605, titled Costs of Confinement.”

St. Alphonsus Reg'l Med. Ctr., Ltd. v. Killeen, 858 P.2d 760 (Idaho Ct. App. 1992). · cites it 2× “” Section 20-612 states: The sheriff must receive all persons committed to the jail by competent authority.”

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