If the actions by the Governor to declare a state of emergency and the subsequent actions by the Director of the Department of Corrections to grant emergency time credit to the persons specified in Section 573 of this title do not reduce the population of the prison system to ninety-five percent (95%) or less of the capacity within sixty (60) days of the date of the declaration of the emergency, at the end of the sixty-day period the Director shall grant an additional sixty (60) days of emergency time credit to all persons specified in Section 573 of this title on that date, with such credit to be applied as designated in Section 573 of this title. If at the end of the second sixty-day period, the population of the prison system still exceeds ninety-five percent (95%) of the capacity, the Director shall grant an additional sixty (60) days of emergency time credit to all persons specified in Section 573 of this title. Thereafter, while the state of emergency exists, at the end of each sixty (60) days that the population exceeds ninety-five percent (95%) of capacity, the Director shall grant an additional sixty (60) days of emergency time credits to all persons specified in Section 573 of this title; provided, no person eligible for emergency time credit shall receive more than three hundred sixty (360) days of emergency time credit during a year.

Added by Laws 1984, c. 97, § 5, emerg. eff. April 4, 1984; Amended by Laws 1989, c. 306, § 2, operative July 1, 1989.