Ord 942 9/19/1927NANCE NO.
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NO. 395s Pk",':�SED AIC A -?PR 3V -M ",DN TIME 13TH DAY OF MARM;1"
A. D. 1922, PRi0VIDLNGI THAT PRIL-33t)T 'RS SERVING
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BE IT '7RDAIN77D BY TH._ BOAR CT A10MMM OF THE
CITY OF ITICHITA ;'ALLS, TEXAS:
SECTION J,: That 033ection 4 of Ordinance No.
395, passed amd approved .)n the 13th day of !Varch, A. D.
1922, be, and is hereby amended to hdreafter read as
f oliows:
SECTI01i 4: Every prisoner who has been req7aired
to labor under the Drovisions of this Ordinance, shall
receive a, credit of One ($1.00) Dollar per day on the
fine and costs adjudged against him or her for every day
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he or she has been required to labor and for every Inter-
veni-ig Sunday or legal holiday on which no work was re-
quired.
In the event any prisoner Is physically unable
to labor, P, certificate shall be required of the city
health officer setting forth this fact,and every such
oerson shall receive a credit of One ($1.00) Dollar per
day on the fines and costs adjudged against him or her
1for every day he or she remains in jail under xach cer-
tif icate.
In the event the city of "ichita -'Falls fails to
reqaiTe any prisoner to labor under the provisions of
this ordinance, such prisoner shall receive a credit of
Three ($3-00) Dollars oer day on the fine and costs ad-
judged against him or her for each day he or she remains
in jail; provided that no person shall receive credit at
the rate of Three Jollars per day on the fine or costs
adjudged against high or her unless such prisoner has
made written affidavit to thn fact that he or she has
been confined in jail at least ton days.
When -w'Y ?,,)risoner shall be, entitled under the
T"rovisions of this sectiol, to credit aggregating the
total amount. Of the fine and costs adjudged against him or
her, Or 77heu auY Prisoner tenders in cash any balance of
such fines and costs after deducting all credit that he
or she may be entitled to under the provisions if this
ordinance,, or In the event that the certificate of the
city health Officer heretofore Provided for, directs
the V�x,iediate :release Of a 0 .,-trisoner,, stating it to be
a necessity for the PIreservation of the prisoner's health,
or when any prisoner shall have labored six months under
the provisions of this ordinance to the satisfaction of
any commitment, such nrisoner shall be released from
custody.
s__ ro-,i -2; The fact that the laws of the State
of Texas have recently been changed requiring the city to
allow Prisoners confined in the city jail and working on
public works One Dollar for each and every day they so
work or are confined in the city jail, creates an emergency
and public necessity, and it is ordered th;--.t the rule re—
quiring the reading of this ordinance on three separate
days be suspended, and that this ordina-ace is hereby passed
On its final reading.
PASSED kl371) APPRCDVIiM this the day of September
A. D. 19270
ATTZST:
I TY C LZERK.