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Sec. 1-10. Fines may be paid by work, when; procedure.

Fines imposed for violation of ordinances of the city may be discharged by the offender working out the same upon the streets, alleys or other improvements of the city under the direction of the chief of police or such person as the council may direct and under sufficient guards. Only prisoners confined in the city or county jail by sentence of the municipal court may be taken out and required to work out the amount of all fines, penalties, forfeitures and costs imposed on him in the municipal court, and when any such person shall be allowed or taken out to work as above provided, an accurate account shall be kept by the chief of police of the names of all such persons, and the number of days worked by each, and each shall have his discharge when by his number of days worked he shall become entitled thereto.

(Code 1973, § 1-9)

State law reference(s)--Authority to provide, A.C.A. § 14-55-604.

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