41-22-304 - Work day Amount credited against fines and costs.
41-22-304. Work day Amount credited against fines and costs.
Inmates shall be worked on any of the public roads of the county, and the same number of hours of labor per day as is required by the public road laws shall constitute a day's work. An inmate shall be allowed one dollar ($1.00) for each day's work, which amount shall be credited to the inmate's fine and costs.
[Acts 1899, ch. 358, § 3; Shan., § 1682a4; Code 1932, § 2817; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 41-1304.]