§ 30-256. Authority of county under contract; payment to county.

(a)

The county after making a contract in the manner herein set out, is authorized and empowered to keep the prisoners of the municipalities and to board, house, and guard them. The county is authorized and empowered to work the prisoners at any point in the county, whether inside the corporate limits of the municipalities or not, but no greater degree of labor may be imposed upon the cities' prisoners than could be imposed by the particular municipalities under their existing charter powers.

(b)

Such municipalities are authorized to pay for the boarding, housing, and guarding of such prisoners by their work on the county roads, or in any other way agreed upon between the cities and county.

(Code 1992, § 21-37; Priv. Acts 1913, ch. 243, § 2; Priv. Acts 1961, ch. 376, § 1)