Section 14-6-42 - Payments for services; recordkeeping(a) Food and the services for preparing food, serving food, and other services incident to the feeding of prisoners in the county jail shall be paid for by the state as follows: (1) Two dollars twenty-five cents ($2.25) per day for each prisoner.(2) Beginning October 1, 2024, two dollars fifty cents ($2.50) per day for each prisoner.(3) Beginning October 1, 2025, two dollars seventy-five cents ($2.75) per day for each prisoner.(4) Beginning October 1, 2026, three dollars ($3) per day for each prisoner.(b)(1) Payments made by the state pursuant to this section to the office of the sheriff shall be deposited in a separate account designated the Prisoner Feeding Fund established in Section 14-6-47.(2) The sheriff shall maintain records of all payments received and all expenditures made from the Prisoner Feeding Fund, which shall be subject to regular audit by the Department of Examiners of Public Accounts.(3) Expenditures for the feeding of prisoners shall be exempt from the competitive bid law.(c) The sheriff or county commission may use funds from any available source, including, but not limited to, other monies received by the sheriff or county commission for the feeding of federal or municipal prisoners, to accomplish the purposes of this chapter.Ala. Code § 14-6-42 (1975)
Amended by Act 2024-251,§ 1, eff. 6/1/2024.Amended by Act 2019-133,§ 1, eff. 8/1/2019.Acts 1923, No. 528, p. 704; Code 1923, §4827; Acts 1927, No. 595, p. 693; Code 1940, T. 45, §144; Acts 1945, No. 309, p. 502; Acts 1957, No. 362, p. 477, §2; Acts 1967, No. 246, p. 626; Acts 1973, No. 1002, p. 1538; Acts 1977, No. 532, p. 704; Acts 1980, No. 80-624, p. 1070, §1.