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2019 Code of Alabama
Title 14 - Criminal Correctional and Detention Facilities.
Chapter 5 - Convict Labor.
Article 1 - General Provisions.
Section 14-5-5 - County convicts - Authority to work generally; lease to persons, firms or corporations prohibited; working in and around public buildings and works.
Universal Citation: AL Code § 14-5-5 (2019)
Section 14-5-5County convicts - Authority to work generally; lease to persons, firms or corporations prohibited; working in and around public buildings and works.
Nothing in this article shall prevent any county of this state from working its county convicts according to the law as it now exists or may hereafter be enacted, but no county convict shall be worked in any coal mine or worked under lease to any person, firm or corporation; provided, however, that any county or counties shall have the authority to work such convicts retained by it in and around the courthouse, in and around the jail or any other public building or works of the county.
(Acts 1927, No. 72, p. 52; Code 1940, T. 45, §100; Acts 1955, No. 307, p. 705.)
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