§ 14-6A-33 — Facility to Serve as Municipal Jail; Employees; Duty of Superintendent

(a) After a regional jail facility is operational, the facility shall serve as the municipal jail for each municipality participating in the regional jail authority. Each municipality shall retain its authority regarding the custody and transportation of prisoners from the municipality and may cause the removal of any prisoner from the regional jail facility for any purpose authorized by law. The superintendent of the regional jail facility and all jail personnel shall be employees of the regional jail authority unless the facility is maintained and operated by a privately owned jail management firm. The superintendent shall be selected by the mayor members of the board of directors and shall serve at their pleasure. The superintendent, according to written policies and procedures adopted by the mayor members of the board of directors, shall have and exercise control and authority over prisoners committed or transferred to the regional jail facility while housed in the facility and shall supervise all jail officers and other employees assigned to the facility.
(b) Upon resolution of the municipality, any municipality participating in a regional jail authority may continue to keep operational the jail in its municipality for the limited purpose of temporarily housing prisoners as necessary while awaiting arraignment or other hearing or as otherwise deemed necessary by the mayor of the municipality.

Legislative History

(Act 2006-185, p. 1260, §4.)