Any expense incurred by the state for returning to the Department of Corrections any parole or post-prison supervision violator or violator of a conditional commutation or conditional pardon shall be paid out of the biennial appropriations made for the payment of the state’s portion of the expenses incident to such transportation. [1953 c.191 §1; 1973 c.836 §287; 1987 c.320 §50; 1989 c.790 §27]