28-222. Cook and assistant for county jail; feeding prisoners. The board of county commissioners may employ a cook and an assistant for the county jail at a reasonable wage and shall pay all expenses for feeding the prisoners in the county jail. No contract shall ever be made with the sheriffs for feeding such prisoners.

History: L. 1937, ch. 233, § 15; L. 1943, ch. 164, § 13; L. 1947, ch. 253, § 13; L. 1949, ch. 266, § 15; L. 1971, ch. 137, § 1; July 1.