NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

CHAPTER 567

HOUSE BILL 679

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 229, SESSION LAWS OF 1957, RELATING TO FEES FOR JAIL OPERATION IN VANCE COUNTY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. Chapter 229, Session Laws of 1957, is amended by adding a new Section following Section 1 thereof, to be designated Section 1½, and to read as follows:

"Sec. 1½. The Board of County Commissioners of Vance County is hereby authorized to fix jailer's fees at a sum not to exceed two dollars ($2.00) per day for each prisoner kept a day or portion thereof, and, in its discretion, to provide for the payment of a turnkey fee in a sum not to exceed one dollar ($1.00) for each person arrested but released upon bond without imprisonment. All such fees are to be charged upon the bill of costs, and paid into the county funds for the expense of operation of the county jail."

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after July 1, 1961.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 31st day of May, 1961.