[HISTORY: Adopted as indicated in article histories. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
[Adopted as indicated in text (Ch. 44 of the 1990 Code of
Public Local Laws)]
[1961 Code, § 439; 1970 Code, Sec. 1-4; 1982, ch.
898; 1988, ch. 227, § 2]
It shall be the duty of the County to pay for all supplies and
provisions necessary, in the judgment of the County, for the support
and maintenance of all persons committed to the jail, said supplies
and provisions to be purchased by the Sheriff and placed at said jail.
The bills for the same shall be presented by the Sheriff to the County
for approval and payment, and the County shall determine the amount
to be expended by the Sheriff per day for each prisoner actually committed
to the jail of said County. The Sheriff shall not exceed such allowance
without the approval of the County. The County shall furnish all fuel
and light needed for said jail. The Sheriff shall have the authority
and power to appoint an Attorney to the Sheriff, a cook to serve at
the jail and such other assistants, with the approval of the County,
as may be necessary in an emergency, said cook and assistants to be
paid such salary as the County directs. The Attorney to the Sheriff
shall be paid such amounts and at such times as may be approved by
the County. The County shall include in the tax levy each year a sufficient
amount to pay for the cost of food and the compensation to the cook
and Attorney.
[1961 Code, § 440; 1970 Code, Sec. 1-5; 1988, ch.
227, § 2; amended 11-13-2012 by Ord. No. 2012-12]
It shall be the duty of the Sheriff to keep a correct and full
statement or schedule of all persons committed to the jail, showing
the length of time and the charge upon which they are committed, and
the name of the officer , which statement or schedule, together with
all books, papers and commitments kept by him pertaining to prisoners
in the jail, shall at all times be open to inspection by County officials
or employees. At the first meeting of the Council in each month, the
Sheriff shall make to the Council, under oath, a full and complete
report of all persons confined in the jail, with a statement of the
length of time, the offense for which they are committed and the name
of the officer by whom they were committed. The same sums of money
hereinbefore authorized to be levied and paid the Sheriff shall be
in full of all claims of said Sheriff against Cecil County for his
care, labor, responsibility and expense in discharging the duties
of his office, including the keeping safely in jail of prisoners committed
to his custody, supplying to said prisoners the provisions furnished
for them, by the County, properly cooked and served in a proper and
sanitary condition as hereinbefore provided, and keeping the jail
in a clean and tidy condition. The County shall not pay said Sheriff
for any service he may render in the discharge of his official duties
any further or other compensation and shall not be in any way liable
for any fees now or which may hereafter be allowed said Sheriff by
law, or for any further compensation than that as above provided.
[Adopted by the Board of County Commissioners (now County
Council) 2-25-1969]
Any person sentenced and incarcerated in the County jail on
the live-in, work-out program will be obligated to pay all medical
and hospital bills incurred by the prisoner not related to his incarceration
or caused by the Sheriff or his employees, and the same will be withheld
by the probation office in the same manner as keep and support.
