Oklahoma § 69-619 - City and town prisoners employed by counties - Credit for

§ 69-619. City and town prisoners employed by counties - Credit for

work.

The boards of county commissioners of the several counties of

the state shall have authority to receive by agreement with the

governing board of any municipality, the prisoners of the

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 69. Roads, Bridges, and Ferries

municipality, who have been sentenced to imprisonment in the

municipality's jail, either as punishment or in lieu of payment of

fine and costs for the violation of any municipal ordinance, and

such board of county commissioners shall have authority to work any

such prisoners on the public highways or upon a rock pile, or rock

crusher, for the purpose of providing material for use upon public

highways or any public institution of such county, or upon any

public work in which the county is interested. Any such person so

imprisoned for nonpayment of fine and costs shall receive credit

upon his or her fine and costs of One Dollar ($1.00) for each day so

confined in prison or worked upon the public highways, rock pile,

rock crusher, or other public work; provided, the board of county

commissioners shall not pay for the services of such prisoners,

except the cost of their transportation and maintenance.

Laws 1968, c. 415, § 619, operative July 1, 1968.