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2011 Maine Revised Statutes
TITLE 30-A: MUNICIPALITIES AND COUNTIES (HEADING: PL 1987, c. 737, Pt. A, @2 (new))
Chapter 13: COUNTY JAILS AND JAILERS
30-A §1601. Employment of prisoners generally


30-A ME Rev Stat § 1601 (2011 through 125th Legis) What's This?

Part 1: COUNTIES HEADING: PL 1987, C. 737, PT. A, §2 (NEW)

Subchapter 3: PRISON LABOR HEADING: PL 1987, C. 737, PT. A, §2 (NEW)

§1601. Employment of prisoners generally

The county commissioners may authorize the employment of prisoners committed for crime, for the benefit of the county or of their dependent families, in some suitable manner not inconsistent with their security and the discipline of the prison. The commissioners may pay the proceeds of that labor, less a reasonable sum to be deducted for the cost of maintenance of those prisoners, to the dependent families of the prisoners. [1987, c. 737, Pt. A, §2 (NEW); 1987, c. 737, Pt. C, §106 (NEW); 1989, c. 6, (AMD); 1989, c. 9, §2 (AMD); 1989, c. 104, Pt. C, §§8, 10 (AMD).]

This section does not apply to sections 1602 and 1603. [1987, c. 737, Pt. A, §2 (NEW); 1987, c. 737, Pt. C, §106 (NEW); 1989, c. 6, (AMD); 1989, c. 9, §2 (AMD); 1989, c. 104, Pt. C, §§8, 10 (AMD).]

SECTION HISTORY

1987, c. 737, §§A2,C106 (NEW). 1989, c. 6, (AMD). 1989, c. 9, §2 (AMD). 1989, c. 104, §§C8,10 (AMD).

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