Chapter 1.20
PRISONERS
Sections:
1.20.010 Imprisonment and labor as payment of fines and costs.
1.20.020 Duty to hold in custody.
1.20.030 Duty to enforce labor.
1.20.010 Imprisonment and labor as payment of fines and costs.
If any person ordered into custody until the fine and costs adjudged against him are paid and does not pay or cause the payment of same to be made, he shall be committed to the City Jail until the amount of such fine and costs owing are paid. Execution may at any time issue against the property of the defendant for that portion of such fine and costs not reduced by the application of this section. The amount of such fine and costs owing shall be the whole of such fine and costs reduced by the amount of any portion thereof paid, and $100.00 for every day the defendant performs labor as provided in this chapter and $50.00 for every day the defendant does not perform such labor while imprisoned. [1956 Code § 6-1301, § 1.]
1.20.020 Duty to hold in custody.
It shall be the duty of the Chief of Police to incarcerate and hold in the City Jail any and every person who may be ordered or adjudged to be committed to the jail by the Municipal Court Judge either as a penalty or any offense or for nonpayment of any fine, costs and expenses, or either of them, and to hold such person in custody according to law; provided, that all prisoners during the term of their imprisonment or commitment, shall be liable to work; such work to be designated by the Chief of Police. [1956 Code § 6-1301, § 2.]
1.20.030 Duty to enforce labor.
It shall be the duty of the Chief of Police, whenever he shall have prisoners in his custody, to work them upon such streets, alleys, crossings, ditches, or other property of the City upon which the labor of such prisoners may be required, and the prisoners must labor as provided in this chapter, under the direction of the Chief of Police or his deputy, whose duty it is and shall be to see that the prisoners are guarded to prevent escape. [1956 Code § 6-1301 § 3.]
1.20.040 Hours of labor.
No prisoner shall be required to labor over eight hours in one day. If prisoners refuse to labor when directed by the Chief of Police or his deputy, they shall for every refusal be closely confined to the City Jail. [Ord. 1216 §§ 1, 2, 1979; 1956 Code § 6-1301, § 4.]
1.20.050 Exemptions.
This chapter shall not be construed to require any female prisoner to perform labor, nor to require any prisoner to perform labor on Sunday. “Prisoners” as used in this chapter, shall be construed to mean all persons who have been or may be sentenced to imprisonment for the violation of any ordinance or committed for nonpayment of any fine for violation thereof. [1956 Code § 6-1301, § 5.]