Sec. 1. 17-A MRSA §1252, sub-§1, ¶¶A and B, as enacted by PL 1989, c. 693, §5, are amended to read:

A. For a Class D or Class E crime the court must specify a county jail as the place of imprisonment.

B. For a Class A, Class B or, Class C or Class D crime the court must:

(1) Specify a county jail as the place of imprisonment if the term of imprisonment is 9 6 months or less; or

(2) Commit the person to the Department of Corrections if the term of imprisonment is more than 9 6 months.

Sec. 2. 17-A MRSA §1252, sub-§7, as enacted by PL 1989, c. 693, §7, is amended to read:

7. If a sentence to a term of imprisonment in a county jail is consecutive to or is to be followed by a sentence to a term of imprisonment in the custody of the Department of Corrections, the court imposing either sentence may order that both be served in the custody of the Department of Corrections. If a court imposes consecutive terms of imprisonment for Class D or Class E crimes and the aggregate length of the terms imposed is one year 6 months or more, the court may shall order that they be served in the custody of the Department of Corrections.

Sec. 3. 34-A MRSA §1210-B is enacted to read:

§1210-B.__Funding

The Legislature shall annually appropriate to each jail authority an amount sufficient to supplement amounts distributed pursuant to section 1210-A so that the total from both funding sources reimburses the jail authority for:

1.__Prisoners committed to county facilities.__The jail authority's average total cost of the support of prisoners committed by court to that jail authority's correctional facilities.__The average total cost of the support of prisoners committed by court to a jail authority's correctional facilities must be based on the average daily cost of supporting such prisoners in those facilities; and

2. Prisoners housed at county facilities.__The full cost incurred by the jail authority for the support of prisoners committed to the Department of Corrections but who, as a result