(a) The municipal council of two or more municipalities, by resolution and with the initial consent of their respective mayors, may establish a regional jail authority for the purpose of constructing, maintaining, and operating a regional jail facility for the municipalities participating in the regional jail authority.
(b) A municipality which desires to join an existing regional jail authority, by resolution and with the initial consent of the mayor, may request participation in the existing regional jail authority. A regional jail authority, by resolution, may approve the requesting municipality's participation in the authority, and if approved, the municipality shall participate with all rights and obligations of the original municipalities participating in the regional jail authority.
Structure Code of Alabama
Title 14 - Criminal Correctional and Detention Facilities.
Chapter 6A - Multi-County Establishment of Regional Jail Authorities.
Article 2 - Multi-Municipal Establishment of Regional Jail Authoirty.
Section 14-6A-30 - Establishing or Joining Regional Jail Authority.
Section 14-6A-32 - Board of Directors.
Section 14-6A-33 - Facility to Serve as Municipal Jail; Employees; Duty of Superintendent.
Section 14-6A-34 - Governmental Entity.
Section 14-6A-35 - Scope of Authority.
Section 14-6A-36 - Tax Exemptions.
Section 14-6A-37 - Obligations of Authority.