[HISTORY: Adopted and amended as indicated in text (Ch. 70
of the 1984 Code).]
[P.L.L., 1888, Art. 1, sec. 227; 1930, sec. 623; 1955 Code,
sec. 547; 1874, ch. 479; 1890, ch. 83; 1902, ch. 202; 1904, ch. 213;
1918, ch. 30; 1920, ch. 455; 1943, ch. 620; 1945, ch. 806, sec. 623;
1947, ch. 905; 1963, ch. 266]
A.
The County Commissioners for Allegany County shall allow the Sheriff
of Allegany County each year the following allowances:[1]
(1)
A sum necessary to provide for the housing, feeding and providing
for the care of inmates at the Detention Center and all amounts expended
for operation and maintenance of the Detention Center.
(2)
The necessary costs of transporting prisoners sentenced by the courts
of Allegany County.
(3)
The actual sum of money expended by the Sheriff in the maintenance
of inmates at the Detention Center.
B.
The County Commissioners shall allow said Sheriff no other expenses
whatsoever, upon any pretext, unless allowed, directed and ordered
by the Board in regular session, provided that no allowance for expenses
shall be paid or credited to said Sheriff or for his account unless
the same shall be reported under oath to the County Commissioners
at each month in writing, which oath shall show all the expenditures
and that they are correct and have been honestly and lawfully incurred,
that the Sheriff himself has not derived any profit from the purchase
thereof nor has consumed or appropriated to himself or has permitted
his deputies to so appropriate to themselves any part of said purchases,
that each expenditure and purchase was reasonable and necessary and
the price thereof was not in excess of the market price, which said
report and affidavit shall be accompanied by properly itemized vouchers
or certificates showing to whom and for what purpose the same were
made.
C.
The Sheriff shall not be entitled to any compensation for the removal
of inmates from the Detention Center to any other place, except when
the same was done upon the order of the Circuit Court for Allegany
County or District Court of Maryland, and he shall not allow the removal
of any inmates from the Allegany County Detention Center unless upon
the order of the Circuit Court or upon the expiration of an inmate's
term or his release in full for a hearing either by the Circuit Court
for Allegany County or a Justice of the Peace.[2]
D.
The Sheriff shall at the end of each month make a list of the inmates
in his custody and the reasons for their commitment and post the same
in the office of the County jail so that it may be read by those who
desire to do so.[3]
E.
Any false swearing in the report of the Sheriff or affidavit thereof
to the Board of County Commissioners shall be deemed perjury and be
punished as such.
F.
The Sheriff shall also include in his monthly report a full statement
of all fines and costs by him collected and shall pay the same over
to the County Finance Director.
[Amended 1-15-1982 by Bill No. 14-81, effective 3-31-1983; 9-17-1982 by Bill No. 7-82, effective 9-30-1982]
