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     242.37 Conservation camps. 

    (1) The commissioner of corrections may establish and 
 operate conservation camps in which persons committed to the 
 commissioner of corrections may be placed.  Such camps may be 
 established independently or in cooperation with any other 
 public agency or any governmental subdivision, subject to the 
 approval of such agency or subdivision as to any camp or project 
 to the extent that its premises or operations are affected. 

    (2) Every able-bodied person committed as provided in 
 clause (1) may be confined to a conservation camp established 
 pursuant to this section or to any other institution under the 
 control of the commissioner, subject to the limitations of 
 section 242.19.  Any person committed to a conservation camp as 
 herein provided may be required by order of the commissioner to 
 labor during the whole or some part of the time for which so 
 committed and confined, but not more than eight hours per day.  
 The commissioner is authorized and empowered to determine the 
 payment of such compensation to persons so confined who perform 
 labor as hereinabove provided.  Any money arising hereunder 
 shall be and remain under control of the commissioner and shall 
 be for the sole benefit of the person performing the labor 
 unless it shall be used for rendering assistance to the 
 laborer's family or dependents or in making restitution to 
 persons determined by the commissioner to be entitled thereto, 
 in either event payments shall be made only in such amount, at 
 such time and to such persons as the commissioner may order in 
 writing. 

    HIST: 1949 c 575 s 1; 1973 c 144 s 1; 1973 c 654 s 15; 1975 c 
 261 s 6; 1980 c 509 s 96; 1983 c 274 s 18; 1986 c 444 

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