Tennessee § 41-22-301 - Contracting board.

§ 41-22-301. Contracting board.

The county mayor, county clerk and sheriff of each county are constituted a board for their respective counties, whose duty it is to enter into contracts with public road commissioners or other officers or road contractors having the superintendence of working the public roads, for the employment on the public roads of inmates confined in the county jails for the nonpayment of fines and/or costs adjudged against them by the courts. Acts 1899, ch. 358, § 1; Shan., § 1682a1; mod. Code 1932, § 2814; impl. am. Acts 1978, ch. 934, §§ 16, 22, 36; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 41-1301; Acts 2003, ch. 90, § 2. Compiler's Notes. Provisions of this section concerning imprisonment for failure to pay costs may be affected by Anderson v. Ellington, 300 F. Supp. 789 (M.D. Tenn. 1969), which held that imprisonment for nonpayment of costs violates the United States Constitution. Acts 2003, ch. 90, § 2, directed the code commission to change all references from “county executive” to “county mayor” and to include all such changes in supplements and replacement volumes for the Tennessee Code Annotated. Cross-References. Contracts between county officials and department of transportation, § 41-2-125 . Felons sentenced to workhouse, § 41-2-123 . Inmate labor for private purposes, §§ 41-2-148 , 41-3-106 . Portable workhouses for road work, § 41-2-101 .