The sheriff shall be the custodian of all funds paid into the Prisoner Feeding Fund pursuant to Section 14-6-47, which funds shall be public funds of the office of the sheriff. Any unexpended monies in the Prisoner Feeding Fund on the effective date of any new term of office shall remain in the fund to be expended by the office of the sheriff as provided in this chapter. Any sheriff who fails to maintain records for feeding prisoners as required in this chapter or to submit the same before the grand jury at each term of the circuit court held in his or her county or, upon the expiration of his or her term of office, to turn the same over to his or her successor as required by law is guilty of a misdemeanor.
Structure Code of Alabama
Title 14 - Criminal Correctional and Detention Facilities.
Article 2 - Feeding of Prisoners.
Section 14-6-40 - Duty to Feed Prisoners.
Section 14-6-41 - Supervision.
Section 14-6-42 - Payments for Services; Recordkeeping.
Section 14-6-43 - Allowance - Preparation and Service, Etc.
Section 14-6-47 - Prisoner Feeding Fund; Forms for Records; Disposition of Funds.
Section 14-6-48 - Custodian of Funds; Violations.