A.
Performing Labor on Public Works. Persons confined in the city jail under a final judgment of imprisonment for violation of or failure to comply with any provision of this code or any ordinance or any penal provision of the state, may be required by the chief of police to perform labor on the streets or other public property or works within the city. The phrase "streets or other public property or works within the city," as used in this section, includes, among other things, clerical and menial labor in the city jail or in any camp maintained for the labor of such persons on the streets or other public property, or works within the city.
B.
Escape. Any prisoner performing labor as above-directed who escapes or attempts to escape while so laboring or while going to or returning from such labor, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
(Prior code § 1-106)